ive done ALOT of snow and ice riding, on street and dirtbikes. you dont have to have spikes. although it is nice some of the time. it just takes some finese.
i have ridden my 9 through many winters here with street tires on it. momentum is you friend(until you want to stop lol) its always funny seeing the looks on peoples faces when there are too many inches of snow on the rode and your riding home from work or wherever in a snowstorm.
hi vasily-- no dirt bike or ural.see urals here on rare occaisons.i think they are cool as hell !! my favorites are the older military types -- i like snow--maybe i need a bike for snow?i'd be crushed if the xb9 got kranged up in the snow! no_rice where u live at?
Buddy had a Ural, rode it every day through the winter. Then spent most of the summer and the following winter and spring waiting for parts. Salt rust did so much damage, warranty covered it but I think the dealer is going broke fixing it, seriously.
i must have watched the wrong video then, because the one with the ktm on it shows him running mostly on rodes with barely any snow on them. heck, i can see payvment frequently. then when they are on the track, that is also a groomed type of trail. so BARELY inches much less feet.
and if i had to take a guess, id say the biggest snow ive plowed through on my 9 is a good halfway up the rim. now not a solid mile after mile, but a good few inches consistently, with many much deeper drifts to bust.
now if you want to talk deeper snow, then the dirtbike riding on the rivers and such is plenty of fun. average depth of the snow is well over a foot, before you go drift busting.
i guess i always grew up looking forward to winter so i could play in the snow on the bikes in between snowmobiling.