riding in snow


road.cc's tips for riding on ice and snow

Before you set off…

Maximise your contact patch. Road bike tyres have a larger contact patch on the road than a more knobbly mountain bike tyre, and you can maximise that precious contact further by fitting a wider tyre, and/or not running it at quite such a high pressure. That said, in snow or looser conditions a treaded tyre or even a lightly knobbed MTB or cyclocross tyre will give extra grip.

TfL tells Barclays Cycle Hire members to take care in the snow and may review operations

Scheme fully operational for now, but may need to be scaled back if conditions deteriorate



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