>>1999022Everyone's different.
A few years ago I was on a November group ride, we cut through a plaza, and they had these steel rectangle covers, inset in the pavement over the service/electric boxes.
I rode straight over one, smashed the front brake to lose traction. A six inch skid from the front, straight line from the rear (slippy bricks)... and recovered.
The guy behind me saw what happened, and was flustered--"why would you do that?!!"
"Oh, to see if I could pull out of it." ...I get that I'm a particular kind of person.
Every year, first snow, I host a "longest-skid" ride on the same hill, 9pm.
Other people have the chance, but so far top spot (not always me) has been a fixed gear rider. There's something to it.
