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regional differences Posted by Snowmobile [Email] (#686) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Snowmobile) on Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:14:12 In Reply to: Bike and car comparison is kinda silly, Noel, Mon, 14 Jan 2013 06:50:21 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
I suppose it depends where one lives and how the plowing operations function. I will admit that a lot of the time around here (in an urban setting), plowing is very efficient (at enormous cost and excessive salt use). However, we still get hard packed icy intersections in residential areas (but they are ok because one drives slow). We don't have much for hills, so I agree, here that studs are mostly not essential. Where I grew up, the hills were steeper and there was tons of freezing rain, so we frequently encountered steep icy hills with cars sliding back down them... the studded wheels made all the difference (no issue getting up, with enough traction to dodge the ones sliding back down - ha!), and the noise and squirmishness on bare pavement was a very acceptable side effect.
I do lament that studs are actively banned here. I'd probably put them on at least 1 of our lesser used cars, and to be honest, the way the 9-5 has felt at times these past 2 winters, I wish I could have put studded hakka 7's on it... the new studs are a lot better on bare roads than the ones from a decade or so past (in terms of road feel and road damage)... in contrast to AWD they help one start, stop, and corner on ice, and in winter, ice and snow are priorities for me vs bare roads (which are easy to drive on regardless)... and because they come off for summer, there's no fuel consumption penalty year round...
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