Originally Posted by
mcours2006
Did your ride look something like this:
The challenge today was that most roads were plowed. Two-lane roads like the one above is not bad for me to stay on the street, but I didn't want to be on four-lane roads with traffic buzzing by at much faster than they should under these road conditions, so I rode on the sidewalk, which also wasn't plowed, but it was a heck of a lot harder with 2" of ice pellets covered with a layer of freezing rain--similar to the first pic. Joy.
Yeah that's exactly what it looked like. My commute today was on roads, sidewalks and MUPS, I was using 700x32mm Schwalbe Winter tires.