I'm pretty certain that's just clumps of ice/hard snow sticking to the screw tips. This photo was taken five minutes after a night of racing.
Those tires really chew up the ice. Thanks for the nice words! Cheers, frank On 27 February, 2014 8:14:54 PM EST, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >Excellent shot, Frank. There looks like more metal than just screw >points on those tires though. Were the tires on this one treated >differently? > >On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 7:46 PM, knarf <[email protected]> >wrote: >> Brian seemed a bit bemused about ice racing bicycles so I thought I'd >post this, as much to show a bit of the equipment as to document the >happy men's winner, Justin: >> >> >http://mondociclismo.blogspot.ca/2014/02/justin-mens-champ-icycle-2014.html?m=1 >> >> Fat-tired bikes are starting to be used more often. This one has no >brakes or freewheel. As you can see the tires are heavily studded. Most >racers stud their own tires by screwing sheet metal screws out from the >inside the placing another tire carcass inside that. >> >> I've never ridden on ice but apparently a surprising amount of grip >can be had. Problem is when it lets go it goes very suddenly. >> >> Anyway, hope you enjoy. Comments welcome. >> >> Cheers, >> frank >> “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel >> >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >and follow the directions. > > > >-- >-bmw > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >follow the directions. “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
