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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bikes are better than cars in snow, however. A fat bike's tires 'float' across the surface of the snow, like snowshoes, and can handle any snow depth. Regular mountain bikes and commuter bikes with knobby tires handle a few inches of snow quite well, because the knobs capture snow between them, and snow sticks to snow. Cars, on the other hand, need a vast expenditure of effort to plow the snow off the road surface, so they don't slide around in a few inches of snow, or get stuck in deeper snow.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And then there's the salt, which destroys the cars...