Zip Tie Snow Tires: The least expensive Solution to Blizzard-Proof Your Bike [Bikes]

It’s officially that time of year, with snow and slush and ice perpetually impeding your biking. What to do? Well, once you’ve got a box of zip ties and feel like conjuring up a little bit MacGuyever spirit, you do that.

Fritz Rice of the Dutch Bike Co. is the clever rider behind these makeshift snow tires , and while he admits they appear just a little silly (and that some fixie-riding hipsters may need pioneered the concept), he seems pretty thrilled with the consequences:

I can accelerate, brake, and corner with aplomb, even on the vile snowpack/sheet ice mix the plows leave within the bike lanes. The zip ties dig nicely into the hardest packed surfaces, but they’re thin enough not to dance the bike around at low speed or on short pavement sections.

Aplomb! That’s just great. Fritz has some more pointers on establishing your individual in his write up of the project. [ Dutch Bike Co via LikeCool ]

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