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Vee Rubber VRM351 Scooter Snow Tires???
« on: October 01, 2013, 01:21:08 PM »
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Re: Vee Rubber VRM351 Scooter Snow Tires???
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2013, 03:02:31 PM »
No profile in the middle running surface: no all season tyre. Imho

German example of all season tyre (spikes aren't allowed, with different rubber compound as M+S tyre) : http://www.reifenwerk-heidenau.de/modules/reifenliste/view.php?point=4&rtyp=14&profil=71&pic=58

Japanese example (.com Website in German because this tyre is popular in Central Europe) of M+S tyre: http://www.urban-snow.com/

Slovakian winter tyre (spikes allowed): http://www.savatech.si/slike-nove/scooter-winter-2.gif
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Re: Vee Rubber VRM351 Scooter Snow Tires???
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2013, 09:44:53 PM »
With all due respect Stig, you haven't had enough seat time to ride that beast of yours in the snow.  Interesting tire though.   :)
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Re: Vee Rubber VRM351 Scooter Snow Tires???
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2013, 10:49:47 PM »
CosmoKorny

(is that some hybrid seed brand - we have all kinds of corn 'round here)
Tell me about it.....!
I sure do not want to bang up my new, pretty scooter ---- and it probably would not be too good on this vintage bod to go sliding around on the pavement.
But, I hate the idea of parking  the scoot and buying a beater just for work. And do NOT want to be reduced to bumming a ride from my wife or my son in their nice warm Scion xB's.....when I have a 163cc machine in the garage.

Look at this guy - I think it's Schwartzenegger - he didn't let a little bad weather keep him off his scoot!
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Re: Vee Rubber VRM351 Scooter Snow Tires???
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2013, 10:54:47 PM »
Frozen precip is a different animal altogether... 
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Re: Vee Rubber VRM351 Scooter Snow Tires???
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2013, 07:33:42 PM »
I am 100% sure some tiers are better then others in bad weather but keep in mind you don't have a whole bunch of rubber on the road with any tire.

Now if the road is always snow covered try a knobby tire like that of a dirt bike, assuming you can get the right size.
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Re: Vee Rubber VRM351 Scooter Snow Tires???
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2013, 08:14:21 PM »


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Re: Vee Rubber VRM351 Scooter Snow Tires???
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2013, 08:16:30 PM »
 the manly version, for Stig:

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Re: Vee Rubber VRM351 Scooter Snow Tires???
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2013, 08:20:54 PM »
I have no doubt, Stig, someday you will work yourself to this level:

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Re: Vee Rubber VRM351 Scooter Snow Tires???
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2013, 09:42:49 PM »
I have no doubt, Stig, someday you will work yourself to this level:



You notice the knobby's right?
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Re: Vee Rubber VRM351 Scooter Snow Tires???
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2013, 10:04:44 PM »
My gosh, what a guy this is - makes you proud to ride a scoot in Amerika!! -- getting a little misty here just looking at this picture.  You could climb trees with those tires! (...and can crush your donuts in all that gear if you're not careful)

No, don't need knobs....this is S.W.Ohio, we get some snow, then it gets packed, freezes at night, melts in the sun - to refreeze into black ice at night (when I'm going to work - I am in charge of clearing the snow from my gov't offices - so I'm out before the snow plows and salt trucks) melts again showing some pavement.
Makes a lovely patchwork of pavement/ice/pavement/packed-snow/pave/ice, etc.

I figure to run for a bit, walk, push, ride, skid, push, slip ==repeat. We're only talking 3.5 miles at 10 degrees F. in the dark, up a pretty good 1/4 mile hill.
Should be great cardio !
Have watched several videos on scoot & snow riding, and have been pricing 3-speed bicyclces with der ka-n-obbs at Woolmart.
(No public transport is avail. at 4:00 AM)
Keep the suggestions coming in, please!
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Re: Vee Rubber VRM351 Scooter Snow Tires???
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2013, 02:55:46 AM »
Grab anything you can get your hands on and ride....!!! Life in an adventure....!

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