Originally Posted by
OldsCOOL
How many of you are snowriders? What bike and tire are you using? How long are your rides?...
I live near the "tip of the mitt" in lower Michigan. We get hammered with heavy snows off the big lake that makes riding adventurous. My rides are according to my work schedule and try to get 2-3 5 or 7mi rides in on our smalltown streets at night.
There is a surreal feeling to riding in a snowfall with tunes playing and snow in the headlight beam.
I have a year-round commute of 14 miles through urban Boston. I can ride some major thoroughfares (in the reverse usual commuter direction) and the roads are usually promptly plowed. So with Marathon Winter studded wide tires on my Cannondale Mountain Bike I mainly just have to deal with hardpack new snow, or eventually sloppy slush. On those
major routes I rarely encounter conglomerated brown sugar snow.
In newly fallen snow, the going gets tough at about three inches, but that occurs only early in a heavy new snowfall. I also enjoy the muffled sounds when there is a lot of snow, especially when auto driving is curtailed.
From the Snowpocalypse of 2015: