After Sundays adventure I’m hobbling around on crutches with a knee that is swollen like a water balloon and won’t bear much weight. Thankfully there’s probably nothing broken, fractured, twisted or torn, so I just have to wait for my knee to stop panicking (it has an built-in air bag that doesn’t deploy quickly enough?) and recovery might not take too long. I hope.
Then I shall buy these tyres (Schwalbe Winter Marathons) and laugh in the face of any ice and snow in my path.
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That’s one of Schwalbe’s “lite” studded tires. If you think you’ll encounter a lot of ice and snow you may want one of their more aggressive winter tires.
http://www.schwalbetires.com/node/1367
I’d probably run the one you posted about on the back and the more aggressive one on the front as a good compromise.
If you want total control get the aggressive tire on both wheels.
I actually had a minion go out and check out the Canmore stores today, just in case. And one of them has the Continental Spike Claw 240s at a reasonable price, so I might just grab them. Or arrange for my minion to grab them. They’re a fairly aggressive tyre that will probably be a bit more suited to the conditions I’ll be riding – I’m really not keen on a repeat of the ice slide!