Improve your off road driving skills

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Midnight,
I have a series 2 Landrover Discovery ( that's the newest version that my technical skills and equipment will let me service and repair on my own)

When purchased it had shiny alloy wheels and brand new wide road bias tyres...That wheel and tyre set really looked the business. All was well until temperatures started dropping and I noticed that adhesion to the road was a little less than optimal. First snow and ice revealed the thing to be pretty much uncontrollable, even with all the electronic assistance gizmos doing their thing. I thought I'd made a big mistake with this car.

A change of tyres to narrow profile Snow and Ice Certified Mud and Snow tyres have made the car what it should always have been. We now extract fully laden trailers of tree trunks on slippery deeply rutted forest tracks. There is slight loss of steering precision on road, but barely noticeable even at higher motorway speeds.

I'd expect your softroader to have a different personality, masked by its current road bias tyres... maybe worth investigating?

But an off road bike ridden by an experienced rider will go places that 4x4s wont and will do so at a fraction of the fuel cost, its true.