Studded Gazz

Are you planing war against a iceberg or something?

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Wow. I hope you wear some thick leg armor.

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First test-run.

(can you only insert images from the web now?)

BTW, I used #8-32 x 1" flat head screws with a strip of duct tape to
cover the heads.

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BWAHAHAHA! THAT'S GREAT! just don't ride it in mud or anything... or
over the paperboy... it'll be great on the snow, though. Looks awesome.

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hahahaha SWEET! It's just as cool as my mad Duro-chain set-up. Looks
like I'm not the only one who didn't remove the lifestyles of the rich
and famous thing from my spokes. :-P

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Wow that's rediculous. I suppose that cannot be ridden on a hard
surface can it? Looks like it'll work well in the snow though. Good
work, haha.

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hell-on-wheel said:

1" screws were probably overkill, but...you know.

Yeah, when they're that long, they just fold over anyway. I never make
mine stick out more than 1/4 inch. I made one for my 26 inch muni last
year. It was great fun on the day we had an ice storm.

Mojoe

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Mojoe said:

Yeah, when they're that long, they just fold over anyway. I never make
mine stick out more than 1/4 inch. I made one for my 26 inch muni last
year. It was great fun on the day we had an ice storm.

Mojoe

Yeah, I'm beginning to see the limitations of long studs. The idea was
for deep snow, but then it's kinda fun to slide around in snow anyway.
I'm scared to try it on pavement, but on soft dirt it just seems to
create a lot of rolling resistance. We'll see how it does in the
snow...still a fun project though, sure looks badass.

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Well if worse comes to worse can you not just switch em out for shorter
and perhaps pointier spikes?

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Best Thing I Have Ever Seen!

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I'm sure if you try it you will see that studs don't help riding in deep
snow. look at the surface area of a stud, it won't give much traction
in snow. The thing that studs help with is ice and hard packed snow,
alternately, if the tire can cut down to a hard base under the powder
snow, the studs would help.

There is a b*king site that talks about riding in the winter:
http://www.icebike.org/Equipment/tires.htm

If you just put the 1/2" screws in at the edge of the tire sticking out
a 45 degree angle you can ride on pavement but you still have plenty of
grip on ice and snow pack. A strip of screws down the center making
pavement and ice riding hard, on both you and the tire. If the screws
are too long they will fold and not grip to their full potential.

~Cameron
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That makes sense. I'll probably shorten them later, after I really test
it out for myself. Til then (doesn't snow here often), it's back to my
plain-old, only moderately badass gazz.

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I rode it around a little tonight on the carpet

its crazy, it sticks into the ground

but it has crazy rotational weight

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I think I could sell your photo to Cabellas as an invention idea: camo
for the unicycling moose hunter.

Excellent!

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that is soooo cool!! well done!

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Well, we got plenty of snow last night! Did you test it?

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Maybe -you- got plenty of snow last night😠 Just a whole lot of very
cold rain over here🙁

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hell-on-wheel said:

Maybe -you- got plenty of snow last night😠 Just a whole lot of very
cold rain over here🙁

Really? JMU closed early yesterday, and is still closed, further
prolonging finals week. Why won't it end????

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When are you done? Would you be up for a pre-Xmas ride sometime next
week? Either here or there?

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