Cycling in snow, 2023 edition
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There  was  no  cold  autumn this  year.  Temperatures  were  unusually
moderate - ~5 degrees of Celsius  and definitely over zero. Then in the
last week of the November it have started to snow.

We got  unusually big amount of  snow. Much more that  in many previous
years. For example, last  year we had some snow in  November but it was
gone in a few days. Now it  persists for almost two weeks and some more
snow is expected.

Anyway, I  have had to  do some usual bike  rides - my  daily commuting
(actually, I  had to walk  for two days) and  a longer ride  today (~18
km).

The  main roads  are mostly  clean but  cycle paths/  shared paths  and
sidewalks are hit and miss. Moreover I have had to use a side road to a
village. It wasn't cleaned much but it was rideable for most parts.

I  use am  old (1960s)  Moulton bicycle  for winter  rides. It  has 16"
wheels ad 3  speeds. More importantly, it use  Sturmey-Archer hub gears
instead of a derraileur so switching  gears is instant and the chain is
higher above ground (thus there are less parts prone to damage).

The problem are the tyres. I used spiked rear tyre last winter but when
I installed it all the snow disappeared and never returned. So I am now
on an "all-year" tyres. They works but  in some cases (wet snow, ice) I
have to  pull my bike.  IT is  also hard to  ride places which  are not
flat.  So frozen  traces  of big  cars and  such  things made  problem.
Anyway, I had to  pull my bike for less than 1 km  today (so I was able
to ride  the bike for over  17 km). Not a  bad result for 60  years old
machine.

I am curious if people will use contemporary bikes in 60 years...