My gosh, what a guy this is - makes you proud to ride a scoot in Amerika!! -- getting a little misty here just looking at this picture. You could climb trees with those tires! (...and can crush your donuts in all that gear if you're not careful)
No, don't need knobs....this is S.W.Ohio, we get some snow, then it gets packed, freezes at night, melts in the sun - to refreeze into black ice at night (when I'm going to work - I am in charge of clearing the snow from my gov't offices - so I'm out before the snow plows and salt trucks) melts again showing some pavement.
Makes a lovely patchwork of pavement/ice/pavement/packed-snow/pave/ice, etc.
I figure to run for a bit, walk, push, ride, skid, push, slip ==repeat. We're only talking 3.5 miles at 10 degrees F. in the dark, up a pretty good 1/4 mile hill.
Should be great cardio !
Have watched several videos on scoot & snow riding, and have been pricing 3-speed bicyclces with der ka-n-obbs at Woolmart.
(No public transport is avail. at 4:00 AM)
Keep the suggestions coming in, please!