Combo's and Quads

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Is this snowy shitty weather a time when a quad would actually be useful?

Previously my only use for a quad would be for playing the part of the dick with too much money who rolls down to the beach in the summer looking cool...

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Road quads I'm talking about, agri ones are immensely cool whatever the weather[/size]

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Be a lot harder to get through traffic, which is a big reason not to be in a car.

A proper off-road quad has big fat tyres run at very low pressures, these actually are useful on snow and may help a bit on ice; they run at very low pressures I believe.
I suspect one with road tyres/wheels isn't going to offer much over a light car.
Alternatively, the Yamaha BW range are supposed to be pretty good, thanks to basically using quad bike tyres:
https://p1.bikepics.com/pics/2009%5C11%5C20%5Cbikepics-1835133-full.jpg
(Hopefully image should work, tested and seems to.)
Fancy owning/having a play on one some time, unfortunately very rare, especially in the UK.

I've been thinking that a trials bike could make a good bike for these conditions - trials bikes are made to get grip over slippy wet rocks and nasty mud, which may not be too far off snow and ice.

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That would be the delightful chap who has two sets of C&S to get the offset right to the rear wheel?

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I have wondered about making a "DIY" version - maybe based on a XR400?

(And yes, two sets of chain and sprockets.)