Originally Posted by
nmanhipot
The thing looks like a great fun, but the ice-bikers in Alaska still roll big fat tires. Still, if you've got nothin' but snow, it seems like something fun to try on a cheap, used hard-tail.
Edit: And you stop this thing how? Tail slide into a snow drift?
It could have been somewhat useful last year in Quebce city with our wonderful 560+ cm of snow from last winter, but I would worry about the front tire floatation then...
I know a guy who bikes in winter on the unplowed MUP for 8-9 km, he has a Surly Pugsley with the Large Marge rims. If I wanted to bike in heavy snow, that is the kind of tool I would use rather than that cool attire, which I see more as a tool for a snow bikercross or something more downhill... I guess!