Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site twitch.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxj!houxm!hocad!twitch!grt From: grt@twitch.UUCP ( G.R.Tomasevich) Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Traction in Snow Message-ID: <162@twitch.UUCP> Date: Thu, 17-Jan-85 18:01:48 EST Article-I.D.: twitch.162 Posted: Thu Jan 17 18:01:48 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 01:49:48 EST References: <16200081@uiucdcsb.UUCP> <272@daemon.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel Lines: 11 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