We disagree. My little Honda 125 was an on/off road bike, didn't have
knobby tires, but they were
almost knobby. I'd take it into the woods at Ft. Belvoir and have a
blast riding in the snow. Wore a
snowmobile suit. Went down a few times, but never anything serious.
Probably put half a dozen new
turn signals on that thing.
But, commuting in the winter with ice and snow is something I sure as
hell wouldn't do now. I
learned that one the hard way.
Actually, I was mistaken about the Honda 350. I had one of them later.
The bike I rode back and forth to the base was a Honda 305 "Super Hawk".
It's not an off-road type bike. It's a street bike and in the snow the
tires were basically slicks. I remember riding it with about 6 inches
of snow on the road with both feet out on the road, sorta "skiing" to
keep the bike from sliding out from under me.
I learned my lesson riding a Honda in the snow. I am wondering, though,
how my 4WD Toyota Tacoma will do in the snow. It has
all-terrain/all-season tires, I think, plus a manual transmission, but,
of course, it suffers from the typical pickup truck ailment of not a lot
of weight on the rear tires. I only got the 4WD model because a number
of on-line reports indicated it did well in the snow. We'll see.
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