i just had schwalbe snow studs installed last sunday, when we were already up to our eyeballs in snow, so aside from a few circuits round the underground parking lot at work, i haven't really had a chance to compare them with slicks on bare ground. is it just me, or do they compensate by being nice on the kind of surface they were meant for? i could swear i had an easier time getting up the iced-over climbs than i usually do with my slicks when there's no snow. and i should have been wiped out, after how hard i'd worked to get to that part.

i keep going around at work wanting people to be amazed that i biked so i can take them down in the bike cage and show them my cool studded tires. nobody's even surprised.