hey folks welcome back to wander Oh calm this is Trent today we're gonna show you how to get from this to this to this so we're here at Dawn's garage and we're about to try to make some studded trail riding tires so we're having a little strategy session here on how to do this so what do you say I think the whole you drill and make it as small as you can yeah just that it guides the excuse yeah cuz really all you want is a place for the screw to find its way through that's pretty easy this one works so just for the record what we use now is an eight one eight so we're drilling two holes and every one of the large knobs and one hole into the smaller ones and we're not doing any on the ones that are on the very side of the tire because if you do that the tire will tend to want to climb out of ruts and throw you out what we're using is the 1/4 by one and a quarter inch flathead tapcon concrete screws they're case-hardened which makes them a little harder than the normal metal or wood screws so they'll last a bit longer when you hit some dirt or rocky terrain so you need about 250 concrete screws for each tire or for each set of tires so we've got 500 here for two bikes and the whole pile of quarter twenty nuts and we went to Home Depot these were like 28 bucks or so but ended up going to a bolt supply warehouse and they're only 18 or 19 bucks 400 so if you've got some place that does uh you know bolts apply instead uh instead of a big box home-improvement store it's probably a better probably a better way to do it once you've drilled all the holes you can start each of the concrete screws from the inside of the tire out use a normal screw driver or you can use an electric screwdriver once you set all the screws you can finish screw them through the tire with an electric drill or you could do the whole operation at once with an electric drill the next step is to put a nut on every screw while holding the screw head with a number three Phillips screwdriver it's easiest to use an air wrench or an electric screwdriver so the nice thing about using the air gun here is that once the bolts or sorry once the nuts get below the surface of the knob the the socket just pops right off you don't have to worry about screwing them in past its past any point here because your cross threading the quarter-twenty nuts onto the concrete screws they're unlikely to come off but that also sometimes makes it hard to get them started so you'll need to give them a good push and twist with a pair of pliers to get them going after which they'll go on easily because the concrete screws flex in the tires the screw heads will eventually wear through the inner tube so you'll need something to protect the inner tube from the concrete screw heads my nephew used Gorilla Tape for his setup but the Gorilla Tape eventually wore through and the head of the screw punctured his tube so what we went with was a strip of camping mat made out of closed cell foam so we cut a strip out that was wide enough to cover the heads of the screws and put it inside the tire the length of the camping mount wasn't quite long enough to cover the whole inside of the tire so we just cut another strip to fill the gap that was left over you could probably use a yoga mat as well having the foam in the tire makes them just a little bit harder to mount but once you got them on they seem to work just fine I've run about ten hours with him so far with no punctures and no problems well I've got all set up now for some snow riding on the trails with the spiked tires rear spiked tire ready to go let's spike tire ready to go my nephew and his cousin are running the same tire setup and a couple days later after a snowfall they joined me for a ride up in the hills hey if you liked the video just take the moment and hit like or subscribe to the channel there's lots more to come I'll see you in the next one