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HowTo: Snow-Proof Your Bike Tires For Dirt Cheap

For the low cost of a bag of zip ties, you can easily survive any Snowpocalypses this winter by blizzard-proofing your bicycle tires. Says the MacGyver behind the ingenious hack, Fritz Rice of the Dutch Bike Co.:

"It's quick, it's cheap, and yes, it looks completely ludicrous. BUT. It works. It works beautifully.

Bicycle being repaired in a workshop.

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

Pliers holding a zip tie around a bicycle wheel on a wooden floor.

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