Originally Posted by
jet sanchEz
I ride on 20s all year round. They really cut through the snow, I was pretty surprised that it worked but someone at Urbane told me this years ago and I never looked back. I also run really thin knobbies on my mountain bike during the winter.
I found it goes even further than this - skinny tires with a fixed gear was the most stable thing I've ridden all winter. The road condition feedback you get with a fixed wheel just can't be beat.
These days, whenever I have to ride my road bike around the city - or anything which allows for coasting - I'm startled at my own surprise of the seeming lack of control. Fixed gear simply owns when it comes to controlling speed...