Not a motorcycle rider are you? The books "Proficient Motorcycling" and "More
Proficient Motorcycling" taught me more about riding and by extension driving
than the 15 years I have behind the wheel...
Once you lose traction it doesn't matter if the front wheels are pulling or not
all they'll do is slip. If you've got good tires you've got more traction. If
you're trying to pull and steer you can do one or the other but not both, or
rather not both as well as you could do one or the other.
Boils down to front wheel drive or rear wheel drive doesn't matter so much as
really good snow tires. I don't think I've ever had really good snowtires but
even cheapo snowtires are better than all seasons.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:01:29 -0500
From: "R A Bennell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] What would you buy now?
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Maybe on braking but my experience would indicate that the weight over the
driving wheels helps in other ways. It
was similar with the old rear drive VW bugs. They went through snow well. Might
have partly been the narrow tires
but I believe the weight over the driving wheels helped. Also an issue similar
to ABS I think in the sense that one
can still steer. The front drive vehicles steer better in snow. The wheels pull
the car in the direction one wants
to go. Often with rear drive, one would plow straight ahead even if one kept
moving with the wheels cranked to the
side. That was an issue with my old 2 wheel drive Suburban. Lots of weight so
it didn't spin but it was not great
at turning. We would get ruts in our back lane and the truck didn't like
climbing out of the ruts. Turn the wheel
and slide down the rut straight ahead. Had to remember to climb out of the rut
at some speed before I got to my
garage so that I could turn across the ruts into the garage for parking.
Randy
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