If you get out, have a blast! Everything is far more compact on a snow ride, including the fun. My one word of caution (aside from dress right and well) is never, ever trust a driver on snow/ice. Presume they will spin out of control at the worst possible moment, be unable to stop, etc. DO TRUST the laws of physics. Stay out of the danger 30˚ in front of any moving vehicle (or minimize it as much as possible and always have an escape route), most especially cross traffic. I find passing vehicles on secluded dirt roads give a slow, wide birth and the greatest danger (to them) comes from gaping at the moron biking in the snow.
Depending on an enormous amount of factors, 16+" begins to be unridable. Factors include: -- state of snow/ice underneath (black ice is killer, and until the top snow bonds with it, even studs may not be effective) -- wet or dry. Champaign powder is a blast at those depths. Wet, sticky snow, not so much -- who went first? Am I breaking trail (greater chance of LCG)? Or following a narrow tired vehicle (hard, cant easily stay in the track, so have to break trail), or multiple vehicles (on either road or MUP) and so at least somewhat snow packed (this or breaking trail is my preferred). The biggest rule is to ride with abandon. Faster is sometimes safest/best and only experience will tell you. I get a lot of chance to laugh at myself on these rides. That's part of the fun. Grin. Enjoy! With abandon, Patrick On Saturday, January 23, 2016 at 10:48:27 AM UTC-7, WETH wrote: > > I want to ride and know that Deacon and Mark Reimer among others would > likely be riding. Perhaps I will give it a go tomorrow after the storm > stops. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
