Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site teddy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!mlf From: mlf@teddy.UUCP (Matt L. Fichtenbaum) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: Snow Traction Message-ID: <1147@teddy.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 08:37:48 EST Article-I.D.: teddy.1147 Posted: Fri Jan 11 08:37:48 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 07:37:30 EST References: <16200081@uiucdcsb.UUCP> <505@mako.UUCP> Reply-To: mlf@teddy.UUCP (Matt L. Fichtenbaum) Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass. Lines: 14 Summary: >As a kid in Michigan, I took an old tire and pushed thumbtacks through the >tread about an inch apart. He presumably means from the _inside_ of the tire to the _outside_, so that the thumbtack heads are between the tube and the tire, and the points come out to give traction. Any other way is flat wrong! -- Matt Fichtenbaum "Our job is to rescue fires, not put out your cat."