Bought a new bike for the coming winter, a Diamant Mammut. It is the same bike (with a few changes) Bikesdirect is selling. The bike is developed by a Norwegian Sportshopchain. Took it out for 50 miles of gravelgrinding and some singletrack today. It is heavy ! But I got through some rocky singletrack that I have never ridden before. Looking forward to try it on snow.

Those are some seriously fat tires. What size are they?

I've been thinking of getting one for winter riding as well. It seems like a great choice for winter riding.

4" wide, considering some even wider tires (4,7 ")for loose snow conditions.

You folks know that you are giving some folks on here fits taking about snow and winter riding. Nice ride by the way.

I commute all winter long but there are only a very few days where heavy (deep) snow gets trampled or rutted but never plowed along my route. Those are the days I can't ride the bike. It is very much like trying to ride in sand. I wonder if big tires will really help those situations. In fresh snow I'm fine and suspect skinny is much better up to ~10 inches. Beyond that I wonder if any tire would work.

Just kinda checkin' it out.

That's definitely better than anything I could do on my 26x1.85 commuter bike tires. Very cool.

looks like 70-80 spokes on that front wheel?

Wide tires are fun to ride in the snow. This is not my bike. A vendor at an event out ski patrol was hosting brought it up with him. He let several of us take it on the x-country trails for a spin. The road was covered with melting ice, and it handled the conditions well. There was several feet of snow on the trails iwth a breakable crust. The bike did OK until it broke through the crust, and then you were high centered. I doubt if you would try riding that stuff in normal riding. This happens to be a Surly Pugsly with 4" tires. Have fun!!