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From: grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Traction in Snow
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Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 18:01:48 EST
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We have been having good weather in Holmdel lately for testing it.  In the
past I have used sew-ups on track and road bikes.  They cut through well
but spin easily if you pedal hard.  Now I am using 20 x 2.125 knobby tires
on my 'tank', a bike with a 45" wheelbase.  They seem to work pretty well;
the tread has not been clogging much.  The front wheel slides now and
then, but I have not fallen yet this year.  Tonight could be a different
story...  One should avoid frozen tire tracks; fresh snow on smooth roads
is no problem until it is so deep that you get exhausted riding.
-- 
	George Tomasevich, ihnp4!twitch!grt
	AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ