Originally Posted by
Dangerous Dave
As for riding on top of snow how do you do that? The minute I hit black ice, I'm off. People panic if we get significant snow where I live. We probably get 2-3 snows per year. Some years, it hasn't snowed at all.
Snow (and even ice) gets less slippery when it gets colder. It's really worst, by far, when it's just above freezing. Also, if you live somewhere where there's snow cover on the ground for several months every year, people are pretty much used to it.