[QUOTE=Jim from Boston;19182062]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:[/QUOTHey Jim, looks like you need a Fat Tire bike.