Originally Posted by stapfam
About the same as I use on the Bianchi- but if I get my feet on the ground- my crotch will be in front of the saddle and I only have about 2" standover. Those compact frames are very deceptive to look at.
Surprised you can use Mudguards in the snow? Snow collects on the guards worse than thick clay in my part of the world, but we don't get much of it over here.
The tires I'm running are Continental Spike Claws, which seem to clear very well. Even in deep sticky snow I have not encountered any problems. I actaully put the fenders on during the transistion season when it would snow and then melt, but now that it is colder (we get a very dry cold), they work so well, I'll just leave them on. I too was concerned about the packing, but I just haven't encountered it yet.
Even in this soft sticky stuff the fenders didn't pack up Temp was about -12C.
This was from my joy ride yesterday at -27C.
