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Old 01-17-07, 08:57 AM
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ghettocruiser
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I think it's as unrealistic to look for one bike to do everything in the winter as it is in the summer. I couldn't ask for one bike to be great for long road rides and big-mountain freeriding, and conditions in the winter are even more variable.

Performance on both glare ice and loose snow would require a huge studded tires, that would probably be unrealitically hard to pedal on any other type of surface.

(having ridden and suffered on pavement with both wide DH tires and high-stud count winter tires, I dread the resistance that would come from having both)

The MUPs and singletrack trails around here tend to melt and refreeze often to become ice-footprint-fields, thus I ride a bike with suspension and Hakka 2.1s. It's great for neither pavement nor deeper snow, but I have to play the odds.
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