Snow!

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@ PMC

Tell your mate he would do better to use clothing rivets, like they use on jeans pockets. The screws will just splay or get pushed back towards the tube/rim.

http://www.hohm.com/html_t/jeans_button1.htm

Maybe the 624DE will work.

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@ PMC

"...It will be interesting to see how his bike handles non-frozen patches of concrete!..."


I think he will be able to advertise his services to any Hollywood special FX department. His business card will be signed 'Sparky'  :-)

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Snow can lose its value as a novelty for us South Africans too.
One incident that springs to mind is the day I saw my arse without a mirror because of a cartoon-like skid on a pavement with a slick layer of snow and ice.

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We had snow once in Johannesburg, South Africa. It was in 1981 and I was at school. It was such a momentous occasion that we were immediately let out of school and allowed to go to the park and make snowmen and have snowfights. It was a good amount of snow, not just a sprinkling.

But as for cold: it can get bloody cold for a country that has such good weather. When I was there in winter 2002 it was -2 C with the wind chill. And it is a biting dry cold, an unfriendly cold....