While out riding with a bunch of friends at Ghost Lake, we got some footage of Stephan doing circles with his ice racing tires. It seems as though there’s almost no limit to how far you can lean over!
These studs are ice racing studs made by Fournier in Quebec. They are amazing for riding on the ice, but you’d never want to take them on the trails. They are several hundred dollars per tire and the studs need to be kept as sharp as possible. As soon as you hit the trails, your tires encounter all sorts of dirt and rocks and the studs get dulled very quickly.
For trail riding, we use a totally different solution based on concrete screws. They are much less expensive and are great for mixed winter trail riding. We created a “how to” page so you can make your own. You can also watch just the video below:
The Concrete Screw solution costs about $80 per tire and takes about 3 hours per tire to put together.
If you’re looking for places to ride in the winter, here are some suggestions:
- Frozen Lakes.
- Small creeks with lots of overflow ice or larger creeks with slow current that allows the ice to freeze.
- Irrigation canals.
- Snowy and Icy trails in areas with low snowfall and cold weather. In places with melt/freeze cycles, the snow slowly hardens up and makes an excellent surface.
Deeper snow and less consolidated trails make it more difficult, although sometimes snowmobile and ATV tracks can be fairly good if they’ve hardened up enough.
Later in the spring, you can leave you spikes on as the snow melts and you don’t have to worry too much about the patches of dirt and rock between the snow and ice because the rear tire will likely need to replaced for the next season anyway.
Enjoy the Winter Ice and Snow riding on your dirt bike!!