easy. if you want snow and ice, just take the studded tires off of your bike.

after a week of above-freezing temps, I was feeling lucky and swapped just the rear tire from Marathon Winters to regular Marathons. snowed the day after.


arrrgh. where in the country do you get low precipitation? (I don't care about cold temperatures - actually like them - but it's the rain and snow I can do without.)

Please, learn to control your powers and use them for good.

Uh, ever hear of the desert southwest?

Hi mtalinm,

Sorry about that.

Just this morning I was driving on Boylston in Boston, with a few millimeters of packed and fresh snow thinking how the conditions would be perfect for my Marathon Winters, and wishing the snow would have fallen tomorrow on a commuting work day.

IMO, one of the benefits of riding in bad weather, especially the Winter, is that one becomes more tolerant of the weather, and not as dismayed by it. "In your face, Old Man Winter."

PS: Just a few minutes ago, I posted to this Commuting thread: "Fair weather commuters?"

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...ther-commuters

I'm surprised tsl did not beat me to it.

:-) yep, headed to Phoenix for spring break in a couple of weeks. way too hot in the summer though. I guess California is the perfect place to live after all...

I spent 6 weeks in the PNW and was pretty much assured that when I came home I'd need the studded tyres and full on winter kit.

The northwest corner of New Mexico. Low precipitation, about 6" a year, most of it in the summer. And high altitudes moderate the summer temperatures.

The problem is that when it does rain, the dirt roads (of which most roads are) are all but impassable. We are talking mud of the sort that make even walking almost impossible. Of course a couple of days later... everything is fine.

Looking forward to my next visit! Anasazi ruins...

It was 50F in Minneapolis a couple weeks ago. The windchill was -10F this morning, <_<