2 December 2010 - 8:19What The…..

A while back, I built my first set of snow wheels for my friend Mike. He is having a custom built Walt Works made for him, which should be finished in a couple of weeks. He brought in the finished wheel with tire installed.

This thing is big, and very cool looking. It almost makes me want to jump on this whole snow bike band wagon, but another bike is really the last thing I need.

What you might notice, is that there are little tiny studs in the tire. The tires don’t come that way, Mike spent about 10 hours on a drill press, drilling, then inserting these tiny set screws into the tread blocks. There is something like 240 screws in the tire, he clearly didnt have anything better to do…

Because the set screws are so small, they don’t really add that much weight to the tire, the whole thing weighs about 8 lbs. Mike modded an Ignitor a couple of years ago, and the screws actually do a good job of staying put, and giving a little bit of extra confidence on icy surfaces. I may have to try this sometime…