Eyedaho
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I'm not sure and I'm not going to dig through the thread to find out, but I think this is the data:Think about it, that doesn’t make sense, do crampons stop working at 0F? I can tell you for sure that my studs bite in the ice well down into the -30’s F. My garage is on the north side of my house and that side also faces the mountain. Basically I get no sun and end up with a 4-6” a solid ice glacier there every winter, obvious marks from my tire studs are seen in the ice. So yes Even at approaching -40F my studded tires obviously bite, so do my Salomon SpikeCross, my studded bike tires, and the metal edges on my skis.
I'm not a data scientist, but I don't find the temperature component to be a very strong correlation, especially since the data is from the late nineties. At least one of the studies was based on an old fashioned rubber compound on the studded tires which gets harder at lower temperatures. Nothing in this data proves to me that studs don't work, but I'm certainly no journalist.
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