  Spikes are an important class of 3-connected matroids. For an integer $r\geq
3$, there is a unique binary r-spike denoted by $Z_{r}$. When a
circuit-hyperplane of $Z_{r}$ is relaxed, we obtain another spike and repeating
this procedure will produce other non-binary spikes. The $es$-splitting
operation on a binary spike of rank $r$, may not yield a spike. In this paper,
we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the $es$-splitting operation
to construct $Z_{r+1}$ directly from $Z_{r}$. Indeed, all binary spikes and
many of non-binary spikes of each rank can be derived from the spike $Z_{3}$ by
a sequence of The $es$-splitting operations and circuit-hyperplane relaxations.
