Not saying I know the solution, intuition tells me it probably has already been proposed and shelved for later consideration in a more favorable economic (profitable) time.

Another alternative to studded tires are chains. But then again theres the problem of getting them on and off. Also the danger of slinging them off while driving down the road.

Ah! embedded chain links, loops, extendable vanes, spring loaded extrusions...see we can chase the thread ourselves and we are just us

Missunderstood stomps post and thought you ment to replace the rubber all togather.

Studs only work on Ice or hardly packed snow it's got no function at all for anything else. It's the tire itself that create the friction on snow.

In europe there's two groups, European winter tires and Scandinavian winter tires.

Nokian and Gislaved are the tires that take the top marking in tests every year for scandinavian winter tires, Nokian with studed and Gislaved with friction tires (once again not to confuse with "All season" they are not the same type of tire :))

Nokian studed tires arn't that loud, there's been alot of development in the last 10 years, my Nokian Hakka 7 arn't much louder then friction tires even on asphalt, sure they do produce more noise but todays modern studed tires produce only around 20% of the noise that studed tires used to :)

All season tires here are very rare, the Swedish Transport Administration reccomend not using All season tires on our roads because of their poor performace on snow and ice in low temps. Studed tires are reccomended, Swedish studies show that studed tires would have saved about 50% of those that ware killed in accidents that ware caused by ice compared to friction tries.

Lol, tire chains ...

http://images.cabelas.com/is/image/c...523766_999_01?

Lol, I have chased threads on steel, aluminum, copper, brass, titanium & even plastic. But , I've never chased threads on rubber.

Allthough much faster than this video ...

What did one tire say to the other tire...?



" Dont tread on me...! "


cant claim the punch line its over 225 years old
but i can claim the subject combo..with the punchline...copyright 2012 bsf


:haha::haha::haha::haha::haha::haha:

It sure is a tired old joke that's been around for a fair while but in certain circles it's one we may never tire of
completely..

when you go out at night with some one
on the way home in November weather! your eye a men in a red suit waving at you every turn you made!

http://www.bonin-classic-cars.com/news/news_11.jpg

you know who left the A/c running all night
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...1123120801.jpg
hey Obama keep them windows close ok
we can feel it way down in Florida

take one baby bomb or hand grenade all four tire lay out to be replace
plastic not the answer, spike solid metal tire be the answer for it

if you look closer he's waving his middle finger at you....heheheheheeh

:haha::haha::haha::haha::haha::haha:

See the flat bit? That's where the spikes can come out from, rest of the time the tire is safe on the outside

First real snowfall here now with 70 cm so far, still snowing :)

10 degrees centigrade lower than normal here

may it get upto a 100

when your coat get icicle on it after a rain storm hits your area, but no snow fall
you know it winter time for Santa to come around soon

Sun shining 32 Degrees Centigrade

may it get upto 62

:spam: May I get up to 62