Originally Posted by
wolfchild
You can do all those things on a regular mountain bike or a hybrid with studded tires. Fat bike is too much work to be used as daily transportation.
We'll see. I bought a pair of 35mm studded winter tires for this season. I usually run 23mm tires on my fun bike, and 28mm on my commuter.
I used to live in NY and PA and I didn't have any problems during winter, but last year I moved to a small city in Ontario where they do not plow the snow at all in back roads, just the main roads (and they take a while to clean those). I had to leave my bike at home and get a ride a couple of times, and I wiped out a few more times. I hope that the wider tires do the trick this year. If not, I will try to fat bike next year. I know a couple of acquaintances that use cheap fixed-gear Walmart fat bikes to commute during winter.