I normally don't promote specific products.

I normally don't promote specific products. But this one is truly a life saver and deserves to be known. The Schwalbe Marathon winter tires for bicycles with metal spikes. They make cycling in snow and ice during the winter so much safer. It's now my second winter with them on my e-bike and I couldn't be more happy that I decided to buy them. And before you ask: yes, metal spikes on bicycle tires are legal in Germany and in most other countries.

https://www.schwalbe.com/Marathon-Winter-Plus-11159003

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I normally don't promote specific products. But this one is truly a life saver and deserves to be known. The Schwalbe Marathon winter tires for bicycles with metal spikes. They make cycling in snow and ice during the winter so much safer. It's now my second winter with them on my e-bike and I couldn't be more happy that I decided to buy them. And before you ask: yes, metal spikes on bicycle tires are legal in Germany and in most other countries.

https://www.schwalbe.com/Marathon-Winter-Plus-11159003

#BikeTooter

@jwildeboer I was looking at these but then the temperature rose and all the snow and ice disappeared. Next year.

@jwildeboer I have two sets of these, and I should fit them about now (as I slipped on my bike yesterday due to the negligence of architects using a particularly slippery type of paving slab around a corner and on a complex slope – I went into greater detail using different and far louder words at length at the time yesterday). Having said that, they would still have slipped on that particular spot, but not as readily.

The thing I don’t like about these is that they’re very very tight to get over the rims of my folding bike, so I tend to delay putting them on in case I don’t have to at all (like last year and the year before, I didn’t bother putting them on either of our bikes) and they’re hard to get off, so when they’re on I delay getting them off until about late spring in case we’re due more snow or ice. I’ve had punctures just getting them on or off, they’re so tight on the rims, having to use the plastic tyre levers quite energetically.

Also, once they’re off again in the Spring, riding the bike with the normal tyres back on gives a tremendous feeling of freedom that the bike goes easily again – these Winter Pluses make it quite turgid to ride.

I’ve also lost quite a few studs over time (which actually doesn’t matter much at all).


I should put them on really. I’m just not looking forward to it.

@u0421793 @jwildeboer Agree on the difficulty to put them on. This year I first exchanged my daughter's tires and was so annoyed afterwards that I did not change mine. So I still have to cycle carefully until I muster the patience exchange my set
A version as Faltreifen without the wire rim would be great.

@nicmclee @jwildeboer I sort of half fantasise that the solution would be to simply buy a second set of wheels etc. But then, as soon as I have a puncture, I’d have to go through the ordeal again, so, not worth going the way of entire summer and winter wheels.

I normally don't promote specific products. But this one is truly a life saver and deserves to be known. The Schwalbe Marathon winter tires for bicycles with metal spikes. They make cycling in snow and ice during the winter so much safer. It's now my second winter with them on my e-bike and I couldn't be more happy that I decided to buy them. And before you ask: yes, metal spikes on bicycle tires are legal in Germany and in most other countries.

https://www.schwalbe.com/Marathon-Winter-Plus-11159003

#BikeTooter

I normally don't promote specific products. But this one is truly a life saver and deserves to be known. The Schwalbe Marathon winter tires for bicycles with metal spikes. They make cycling in snow and ice during the winter so much safer. It's now my second winter with them on my e-bike and I couldn't be more happy that I decided to buy them. And before you ask: yes, metal spikes on bicycle tires are legal in Germany and in most other countries.

https://www.schwalbe.com/Marathon-Winter-Plus-11159003

#BikeTooter

I normally don't promote specific products. But this one is truly a life saver and deserves to be known. The Schwalbe Marathon winter tires for bicycles with metal spikes. They make cycling in snow and ice during the winter so much safer. It's now my second winter with them on my e-bike and I couldn't be more happy that I decided to buy them. And before you ask: yes, metal spikes on bicycle tires are legal in Germany and in most other countries.

https://www.schwalbe.com/Marathon-Winter-Plus-11159003

#BikeTooter

@jwildeboer
I totally agree!
Our whole family is using these tires during the winter.

One additional tip: In spring, check the tires for lost spikes. You can buy spare ones as well as a special tool to replace them, which is much cheaper and sustainable than replacing the tires.

@silmaril See https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115853082863358836

@jwildeboer
Oops.That's a classic "Wer lesen kann ist klar im Vorteil" moment.

I normally don't promote specific products. But this one is truly a life saver and deserves to be known. The Schwalbe Marathon winter tires for bicycles with metal spikes. They make cycling in snow and ice during the winter so much safer. It's now my second winter with them on my e-bike and I couldn't be more happy that I decided to buy them. And before you ask: yes, metal spikes on bicycle tires are legal in Germany and in most other countries.

https://www.schwalbe.com/Marathon-Winter-Plus-11159003

#BikeTooter