Idling in Snow

[Mono]

In the last few days I had the rare opportunity (rare for me) to ride and practice in snow. I have to say that slow riding on a surface covered with snow is a great exercise to better understand how to control the wheel with subtle adjustments and keep it under the body at all time,  or smoothly step off otherwise (bent knees make all of this so much easier). Snow riding gives an immediate feedback to what extend the riding situation relies on the ground traction , which is great to know. Surprisingly, idling becomes somewhat easier. Because it is much (much) easier to twist the wheel, much less idle (lean) action is needed to keep balance, but of course also much less leaning is possible without losing traction. It doesn't (and shouldn't?) even feel like leaning but rather moving the wheel around under the body. I even managed to come to an almost full stop for seconds while idling. Highly recommended 

[winterwheel]

That's a great point about the bent knees. When I go into corners I crouch just a little, bending the outside leg particularly so as to put positive pressure on the outside pedal to keep it from sliding out.