The big studded MTB tyre review - on ice edition 

You really deserve a lot of kudos for this video because it was a huge Endeavor to study all these tires and take the personal risk of testing them! I'm sure you spent many hours getting the testing done and making the video. I'm extremely impressed with this and I hope it helps a lot of people.

I rode on my ice spiker pro’s for 6 winters and last summer the whole summer and ride to work five days a week and the tips were still!!! Sharp!!!

Scientist ! Congratulations on the test! Well done. Lots of effort and work!

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Thank you so much for this video. I'm truly inspired to slap some wrathchilds on my turbo levo this winter. I cant keep waiting to ride!!

Excellent work. My 3.0 Wrathchilds get ridden on tarmac to and from the traIlhead. 3 years old and 500 km and have lost only a few studs. The concave studs are self sharpening as they wear.

Thank you for doing this video. Even though it's a couple years old the information about the studs is still relevant. March of 2021 I started cycling, as a senior citizen, I now ride 18- 25 miles per ride 4-6 days a week and one week ago went 50 miles in 4 hours. I call myself a cycling dork and want to ride this winter here in Michigan USA. Now I need to figure out how to save my components from road salt.

This is a fantastic informational video!

I never get these sorts of conditions where I live, but I still really enjoyed this analysis. Wish we had some snow, I love the idea of making my own studded tyres, even though the rolling resistance on my acoustic bike would be brutal!

Great job on this video!

Great test video. I read in the local news that a company called Lieksa Tyres Oy bought Nokia Tyres factory and immaterial rights and have begun producing tyres again last November. In the article I read, the production capacity of Nokia tyres is said to be around 100,000 tyres per year and they also plan on beginning to make tyres for summer use in the future.

I would agree with your findings regarding flat vs. pointed studs. Over several winters riding in the Canadian north with Schwalbe Ice Spiker tires, I discovered that the later generation of the Ice Spiker Pro with flat studs does not offer the same amount of lateral grip as the previous generation of the same tire with pointed studs. The flat-studded rear tire would fish-tail on clean ice, an unsettling feeling and something I did not experience with Ice Spiker Pros with pointed studs. Great video content. Thanks

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Very informative, thank you

Excellent video. Thanks for your efforts. I just bought a 2019 Specialized Turbo Levo HT. I only have a few rides on it on compacted snow, soft ice and 10cm of powder snow. I’ve just been riding with the Ground Control 29 x 2.3 no studs. Setting it up next week with Wrathchild 27.5 x 3” which should significantly improve my ride.

kudos indeed, thank you very much for this video!

Forst of all - Kudos for a great review of so many different studded tires! Great job! Guys, favour to ask. Could you measure the height of ice spiker pro 27.5x2.6 when seated on a rim and inflated? Interested in height from edgd of the rim to topmost part of the tire!

Thanks for the test!)

I live in Norway and i couldn't bike but now I can after getting studded tyres.

Great informational video! Too bad I never need to have studded tires because it's rare that I would ever go in snow in San Diego :-) ...but sometimes we have snow in the mountains here.

I had Schwalbe WInter, the cheapest kind, on my bike this winter. It's been VERY icy, and they were unsafe. But on cold creaky snow they were very nice. I'd say they would be perfect for places with black ice or really cold climate.

I have Ice Spiker Pro Performance (not Evo) bought 2019 with flat studs. Maybe only the Evos have pointy studs? Mileage 700+ km on e-mtb with lots of tarmac. Studs visibly pushed in, but hopefully they're as deep as they can go and will keep this grip for several winters. Zero lost studs, maybe thanks to bedding them in properly 50 km on tarmac with very careful braking. Handled some skid-braking on ice. Putting 29x2,6" Wrathchild on my watchlist =)

Great test, thanks for doing this! The 45 north wraith looks nice, especially due to the width in 29 version compared to the ice spiker, but I see a lot of customer rivews of these tyres loosing a lot of studs. Like, all reviews on the manufacturer website. What is your experience with the long term quality of the studs? (I saw you had a stud fitting video so I guess you've seen a bit of the issue)

I have a set of Wrathchild 29 x 2.6 on my Levo. What air pressure do you recommend?

I'm planning to ride this winter and my commute includes 10% of tarmac (usually never with ice) and the rest is on a trail with packet snow (again usually no ice). My e-bike has a hub motor and the rim is 27.5. I was planning to buy reTyre that is just launching the 27.5 skins these weeks BUT I see here that the Winter Traveler does not perform that good and they're not making the Ice Racer for 27.5. So my other option would be Wrathchild but my rim supports up to 2.25" widths... So I'm out of luck? The Ice Spiker Pro (2.25 version) was the initial option but only do you imagine changing the tire every other day when studs are not needed with a hub motor? A nightmare. Maybe I should just risk it with the Winter Traveler. I'm scared of no studs in the corners honestly.

Hi, great comparison. I think I will go for Ice Spiker Pro. I thought of buying replacement studs, the aluminum based ones that come with the tires according to Schwalbe customer support. I need the stud tool and the Schwalbe one comes with steel spikes in a set that I do not need. The 45 NRTH stud tool is the same price as the Schwalbe set. It looks more ergonomic and better overall. Is it better than the one from Schwalbe? Will the 45 NRTH stud tool fit Schwalbe alu based spikes?

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I have schwalbe ice spiker pros, they're great until the studs rip out I've put less than 1k miles on them but they already have like 25 studs ripping out. They should be in steel bodies not studs in aluminum bodies, their reason is "to save weight", which is ridiculous, the focus should be on durability