Originally Posted by
bikemig
My commute is on fairly quiet residential streets so I'm not really worried about cars. My fair city of Des Moines however does not believe in plowing the streets down to the tarmac. There comes a point in the winter where the roads become a sheet of ice and hard packed snow. That's where I draw the line.
So speed limits around 20mph? If so I would ride to work every single day, unless there was some sort reason you had to drive or do something else. Sheets of ice and hard packed snow mean nothing to studded tires - get 'em.