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I just came across [url= http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/street-scraping-begins-tonight-235188231.html ]this report, including video[/url], about driving in the city where I grew up. If you watch the 1-minute video, you can see the driving conditions that characterise normal winter life there.
As it has been 20 years since I left, I had forgotten what a pounding a car's suspension takes! I never rode my bike in winter there, but I did in Montreal where conditions were slightly better. It was fun (if dangerous) enough, but I would love to go back and ride now with a set of studded tyres.
They will all be riding fatbikes now 😉
The fatbike was simply MADE for that kind of place. Now you've got me dreaming... 8)
They just had snow where my in-laws live. And they are complaining about people not being able to drive and causing accidents. They tend not to block roads since cars tend to spin off and end up in the shoulders or medians.
SaxonRider, surely you want studs for that.
Where is that molgrips? I assume it doesn't snow there often.
As for studs, do you mean on the dream fatbike? Or on the car?
It went like that up here in December 2010.
I hope I never experience weather like that again.
ive been in southern ukraine on the black sea in -28 where the roads had 6 inches of solid ice on. lumpy as ****
locals just got on with it- just slowed down and played it easy - saw very few crashes if any actually - my only concern was when my driver wanted to take our bolga over the frozen sea to the port.
Most ladas i saw were running meatier BFG tires than i would run on my 4x4 😀
Where is that molgrips? I assume it doesn't snow there often.
Wisconsin. It snows there a lot, snow on the ground almost all the time until April or so. And every year, everyone forgets how to drive in snow.
It doesn't help that people are cheap, so they buy tyres that are guaranteed to last 80,000 miles and consequently are hard as nails and crap, then they buy all-season tyres too which are even worse.
I meant studs for the bike btw. I have a set left over from Finland 🙂
Those ice ridges down the centre of the lane can be horrible.
Used to get that in Austria for a couple of days until the snow plough guy sobered up and cleared the main road
(in the process blocking all the side streets with piles of ice blocks 
)