Big fat wheels for cyclocross

In article ,
(A R:nen) wrote:

Ryan Cousineau writes:

Notably, the bike stops making forward progress once the wet snow comes
up above the BB spindle. Maybe it was a traction issue.

Maybe you need to improve the nivadynamics (sp?) of your bike by, say,
adding a snow plough up front. (Of course the snow eats up momentum
real fast and if there is enough snow to impede the pedalling motion,
there's not much you can do. As far as I'm concerned, 10 cm or even the
occasional 20 cm of fresh snow is fun to ride in, but that's where I
draw the line.)

An interesting suggestion, but I suspect the plow would increase the
resistance of the snow without increasing the traction of the bike .

I had a hilarious good time last year riding in nearly-as-deep powder,
albeit mainly downhill.

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