For any who want pictures along my route to work: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/1...53177407194417

First of all, I'm using DIY studded tires using the methods mentioned in the sticky thread. I have more studs (1/2" screws) in the front tire than in the back tire.

My first thought is that, unlike summer time, I think that I should be braking harder with the back tire than with the front because a rear skid is controllable whereas a front skid may lead to a fall. I'd like to hear other's opinion on this.

My second thought is that on roads with some car-packed snow, when there has been some sanding, there is a layer of loosened snow on top of hardened snow and, even with the screws sticking out, I find my front tire getting a bit squirrelly and more so with my rear tire but that is less disconcerting. I try to either find bare packed snow where my studs can cut into it or bare pavement.