Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcsb!thielges From: thielges@uiucdcsb.UUCP Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Snow Traction Message-ID: <16200081@uiucdcsb.UUCP> Date: Mon, 7-Jan-85 12:46:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsb.16200081 Posted: Mon Jan 7 12:46:00 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 9-Jan-85 03:30:41 EST Lines: 11 Nf-ID: #N:uiucdcsb:16200081:000:577 Nf-From: uiucdcsb!thielges Jan 7 11:46:00 1985 Speaking of cold weather riding, does anyone have a solution to the snow traction problem ? A friend of mine suggested to wrap some wire around the rear wheel. Of course, this would disable the rear brake (it might disable you if you forget that the wire is there :-). A disabled rear brake may not be so much of a problem because mine usually freezes after a few weeks of salt water being squirted through the cable housing. I usually brake with my feet in snow anyway. Has anyone tried the wire wheel method ? Bart Thielges 'long live the bat bike'