So I comute by bike and this week I ride through fast changing snow condition. It got from completly covered cycle route, to badly cleaned roads, to mushy brown sludge, and today there were loads of frozen bits of snow and ice patches.
I managed to fell only twice - inertia is your best friend and worse enemy at the same time. And I hope that these conditions will be over soon. Most annoying part is that I dont know what to expect and how to prepare because conditions vary from day to day.
On ice it doesn’t matter much how big tires you have. I’ve got 4.8" wide ones on my efat that I ride with extremely low pressures, but on ice they’re just as grippy as the 2.5" ones on my mtb. I mean yeah bigger tires are obviously better but as is the case with cars too; on snow all tires work more or less but on ice you need studs.