Mountain biking on snow and ice

robertjmiller

yesterday, I mountain biked on a trail that had a mix of dry dirt, mud, slushy snow, iced over streams, and some spots with up to a foot of snow. I was surprised that my basic mountain bike tires did well on snow and ice. Only the really slushy stuff and deep snow caused me problems. Breaking was a little bit of a problem too but other than that it was fun.

do you use wider tires or studded tread when riding on snow? do wider tires require a special fork?

.blitz

Proper snow bikes use 4" tyres to give them flotation on snow but like mud, there are many different kinds of 'snow'.

Some interesting info SnowBikers

robertjmiller

cool, thanks for the link.