I hope it snows, it snows and snows this winter ........

[DrLex]

Did they charge you?

Nope; free. Just used the "Contact Us" link on the schwalbe.co.uk website - took around a week/ten days. Look to have received about three dozen, so should last me for a good while.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Nope; free. Just used the "Contact Us" link on the schwalbe.co.uk website - took around a week/ten days. Look to have received about three dozen, so should last me for a good while.

Thanks

 

[byegad]

You'll be ok in London, all that heat from the buildings. Don't get that cold. 1cm of Snow in London is a world disaster isn't it. LOL

Poor dears!

 

[green1]

How far north is that? (I've just looked out my bobble hat as they said it was getting colder.)

Aberdeen

 

[green1]

Wouldn't mind getting a set of the marathon winters although I suspect that they'll be too wide for my frame. (note to self take vernier home to measure frame width)

 

[nigelnorris]

Incidentally you can buy spare studs from here

http://www.bike-components.de/products/info/p12902_Ersatzspikes-10er-Packung-.html

They're branded as Nokian but the type I ones from that page are identical to the ones fitted in Marathon Winters.

They're expensive because the postage cost is mad, I bought 50 to keep the price down and even that ended up costing 40p each. My three year old winters shed loads of studs last year though and it's cheaper to spend twenty quid on enough studs to last me another two or three years than to replace the tyres. I don't think it's a problem with the tyres, I just put them on in mid December at the first sign of frost and rode with them all the way through to the end of Feb last year. I carry heavy loads and tend to ride them hard so I can't complain.

 

[Scoosh]

<Mod hat ON>

This thread is interesting and serving a useful purpose.

I have removed various spurious posts. Please keep it on topic and keep your petty squabbles to the playground - not on CC.

 

[Crankarm]

Nope; free. Just used the "Contact Us" link on the schwalbe.co.uk website - took around a week/ten days. Look to have received about three dozen, so should last me for a good while.

How do you re-insert them so they stay in? Like you I will email Schwalbe for some replacement studs as losing 3 in the first 70 miles is crap. Front tyre one stud missing and the rear two studs gone, both next to each other. I was riding gently, no hard accelerations, max speed approx 15-16mph on the smooth tarmacced GBW.

I took the SMW off yesterday and put Specialised Armadillos on instead. No more snap crackle and pop, just silence. Much easier rolling which is what you would expect.

 

[asterix]

View attachment 13934

Schwalbe Marathon Winter tyres, 26" x 1.75, 200 spike.

Heated cycle lanes to warm Dutch winter cyclists

The proposal could make winter more comfortable for cyclists​

Towns in the Netherlands are considering a proposal to heat cycle lanes to encourage greater use of bicycles in winter.
The scheme proposes to use geo-thermal energy to prevent ice forming.

 

[Trail Child]

Wow, I have to start learning Dutch so I can move there!

 

[Arjimlad]

So my winter commute will likely be met with p***tures from dropped winter tyre studs ? !

 

[Jezston]

Sorry to hijack and apologies if this got brought up earlier in the thread and I missed it but ...

A bunch of us did a group buy on 700c Nokian A10s last year, and I'd be prepared to do it again.

Thing is, I never really got any serious snow so wasn't able to judge how effective they were. Only impression I got was that they weren't as grippy in wet conditions as my Continental 4 Seasons but I should expect that.

 

[green1]

This in October:

I wouldn't mind if we'd had a bloody summer.

 

[fossyant]

It arrived then.

 

[snorri]

It arrived then.

Time for a group panic?