Well I had to try ?
Had between 2" & 4" [ 50mm - 100mm ] snow over last few days and crunchy from overnight frost.
This is mothers drive about 8 miles away , usual journey takes 1 hour due to hills ?
Today slightly shortened journey 2 hours ! maybe the Python was not the best choice of transport.
However I needed to find out what the problems might be and how ' do able ' it was ?
The front end bore the brunt of the onslaught however I came out of it mostly unaffected by the snow.
The tyres pick it up and the mudguards do not curve around the tyre width and so snow gets dumped on the pivot and also the brake arms for the handbrake.
It also collected around the disc [ currently not used ] and lay on the frame members.
Some of the route was ridden with the front wheel in the tracks of someone on a 2 wheeler with those 4" tyres , it helped me a little except WHO thought it reasonable to ride a 2 wheeler in this ?
The problems amounted to [ in no particular order ]
No traction front - no room for a MTB tyre so a road Marathon - fwd - to little weight over drive wheel.
No traction rear - no grip from tyres when attempting to ' wheel chair ' it to help front end - could have fitted mtb tyres
Had to tow the trike up 4 hills for some of their distance
braking not bad a little fishtailing however it did not feel dangerous.
ice clogging cleats made it very hard to clip in after walking any distance in it.
huge amount of drag when it could move under it's own steam , effectively 3 wheels ploughing their own furrows [ a 2 wheel only has one ploughing wheel and one following ]
Picked shorter better route home and a little road work [ dangerous as very foggy at times ] got home in 1,5 hours.
A odd effect noticed ?
As front wheel ' leans ' when turning it's track is not in the centre of the rear wheels tracks ?
Mad probably ?
had an adventure definitely
learnt a lot YES
Paul