Fed up with crashing on ice? What you need is spikes – and lots of them!

Take a mountain bike tyre, add 361 metal spikes and what do you get? The Schwalbe Ice Spiker Pro, and unbelievable traction in snow and ice! Enough, in fact, to pedal up a frozen stream, as Matt Page demonstrates in this video. It’s the full-speed downhill blasting that appeals to us, though!

Source: Schwalbe Ice Spiker Pro Testing from Matt Page

Those spikes might not look like much but they saved Matt from many an icy wipeout! Picture by Robert Thomson

Rider: Matt Page
Location: Cwm Rhaeadr, Llyn Brianne and the Black Mountains, Wales
Bike: Felt Edict
Filmer: Self-filmed
Music: Zedd – Stache