Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site mako.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!orca!mako!jans From: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: Snow Traction Message-ID: <505@mako.UUCP> Date: Wed, 9-Jan-85 17:59:33 EST Article-I.D.: mako.505 Posted: Wed Jan 9 17:59:33 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Jan-85 07:24:41 EST References: <16200081@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Reply-To: jans@mako.UUCP (Jan Steinman) Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 11 In article <16200081@uiucdcsb.UUCP> thielges@uiucdcsb.UUCP writes: >Speaking of cold weather riding, does anyone have a solution to the snow >traction problem?... As a kid in Michigan, I took an old tire and pushed thumbtacks through the tread about an inch apart. I then rode the bike around on a small lake where all the kids skated. Great fun, but probably not practical if you wanted to ride on pavement without changing tires! -- :::::: Jan Steinman Box 1000, MS 61-161 (w)503/685-2843 :::::: :::::: tektronix!tekecs!jans Wilsonville, OR 97070 (h)503/657-7703 ::::::