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Old 02-01-2014, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by puddinboo View Post
now I`m comparing sav tires to bike tires lol, I know for a fact that the skinny bike tires have more traction in snow than the wide mountain bike tires because the skinny tires are touching less ice equals more traction, touching more ice equal less traction, hope this makes sense took me awhile to figure it out ,then it just clicked.
That is only true if the narrow bicycle tire can cut through all the way to clean pavement, and the wider bicycle tire can't. If you are in deeper snow that packs and can't cut through, the wider bicycle tire with deep lugs and low pressure will do better.
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