Best tire for winter (snow) commuting?

[phishmom]

I'm planning to commute through the winter and this will include riding in the snow. What's the largest tire that will fit under my
Chorus brakes? Have any suggestions for a 'best' tire combining min rolling resistance and max traction?

Also, have any feedback on Tufo's clincher tubulars?

And yes, I'd love to get a cross bike but that'll have to wait until next year.

[dbueno]

Mountain bikes are definately the way to go when it's slippery. The wider, softer tires stay hooked up better, and the bike is easier to control when it starts slipping. You can actually recover from slips and slides on a mountain bike, where with a traditional road bike you're down before you even know what's happening. Suspension helps too -- it can help keep the front wheel hooked up, plus it's more comfortable on bumpy, rutty, icy streets. Finally, for when it's really bad, you can get nice studded tires for mountain bikes.

[Titanfiend]

ride a fixed gear

[enj0ychuck]

http://www.allweathersports.com/winter/winter.html

[blr]

From the page about black ice:

"Turns on Black Ice are best accomplished by keeping the bike as upright as possible. This may involve offsetting your upper body to the side (toward the direction you want to turn) while at the same time keeping the bike upright.
The principal reason to keep the bike upright is NOT to keep more of your tire tread (or studs) in contact with the road, but more simply, that a leaning bike necessarily puts lateral forces on the tire at the contact patch. The contact patch (where the rubber meets the ice) is that preciously small area providing all the traction. Black Ice frequently does not supply enough traction to counteract this lateral force, the tire slips out from under you, and down you go. "

Isn't this statement not only erroneous, but self-contradicting???

[Phrantic]

If your area uses road salt, you'd be better off with a $30 thrift store bike than a pair of tires.

Clearance under caliper varies by framebuilder. Can be 25 can be 30. Stop at LBS and slip in a wheel or two.

Tufo's stuff is great and cheap too. Like their tub/clincher
Cross, which probably won't fit under your caliper