Originally Posted by marqueemoon
Yeah. Things fall apart here but people still try to drive in this stuff.
This snow happened immediately after I switched from 700x40 tires to 700x28 on my Cross Check. Probably not such a bad thing though. The fenders would have clogged badly if I had left the 40s on there.
I had to raise my fenders, front and back. In the back it was just rearranging the stays, but in the front I had to raise the fender above the arch it was bolted to and then zip tie it to the top of the fork so it came through above the v-brake. So that fender is now attached only by zip ties, top and bottom (no eyelets on the suspension fork). So far so good, though.
We used to live on Sand Point Way in Seattle, one time there was a big snow storm and an SUV slid off Sand Point in front of the National Archives building, basically across from our front window, and a couple of TV news people filmed it and then played it back all day as a symbol of the chaos unleashed...