STUDS TODAY! First snow/ice conditions that warranted the studs and was super glad to have them. I took the MUP in and #1- it was plowed! #2 Lots of patches of ice and black ice. Also the wooden bridges without the studded tires would have been deadly. In fact, I'd forgotten about the icy conditions and hit the 1st wooden bridge pretty fast and would have gone down hard but the studs held great.

On the ride home though a scary incident. I was a bit paranoid along Nonantum Road where a car had shot across the bike path and into the Charles River on the weekend. Sure enough as I rode home tonight there was a big black SUV in the middle of the bike path facing in my direction, it's front grill crumpled and lying on the bike path behind the car was a man- on his cell phone! He was surrounded by 3 other guys, whose cars were parked in the road along the path. The guy had hit some black ice spun out of control and onto the bike path.

As I said in another post, it would be a lot safer out there if everyone left their cars at home in the ice and snow and rode a bike.