I used to ride almost year round so long as it was 35 and dry.
You can manage the cold with a good balaclava, gloves, and thermals if need be.
Buy bid knobby tires, and let us know how it rides in the snow.
I bet will get packed with snow but I’m assuming the more ‘street’ tire will end up having more rubber to be useful?
What do you suggest?
Hard to say, in my experience off road, the better you can shed mud/snow, the better. Tires that pack up always sucked, but that wasn’t a snow with road under it condition. I’m thinking that once the pack with snow, they’ll just skate along the top and not get anywhere near the pavement, so the extra rubber won’t do much good. Where the knobbies will push the snow into the valleys and let the tips get to the pavement.
I’m thinking about a light snow, like 1-2" of fluffy stuff or maybe that half inch deep hard packed snow after the plow goes over it.
I seem to remember that I had a tire like the one you posted on my bike and a friend had something like this. His was a bit better in the sloppier mud/sand, and mine was better in the dryish dirt and hardpack. Nothing earth shattering, but it was noticeable.
http://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/p/44/86/176/973/-/13948/Bridgestone-M102-Mud-and-Sand-Tire
Edit:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m163EUYqIYw
I want another MX bike. 
got 33 mpg this week in the bmw by not driving to class everyday. That was about 150 miles due to going to Victor 2-3 times. Usually it’s around 23-26 with in-town driving.
Bump.
Anyone on here into this sorta thing? Looking to get into a studded XR setup for winter.
Big knobbies and a couple thousand sheet metal screws, we rode dirt bikes year round when I was kid. Real studded tires would be best, but it won’t be fun on dry pavement. I’ve been thinking about this also, but with a ski lol.
Well, this isn’t 1984 so…haha. Ski would be awesome! There was a sweet setup on CL a few weeks back. I for sure would get real studded tires, could be fun at a low investment.
Haha. I’m gonna look into tires.
We ride a bunch of xr/crf100’s on the ice all winter, the tires are great (usually a combo of medium terrain Dunlops for good cleanout)- but we use cold-kutter screws (or equivalent) and as soon as you run them on dirt (or worse, pavement) they are toast. That being said, it’s a whole mess of fun on the 100’s though. Good, relatively cheap fun. You definitely want to ride with a few people though, riding a slowish small bike around in circles on the ice by yourself is, well, not so fun.
Have/know of any for sale? Myself and another forum member are interested.
If you buy a legit studded motorcycle tire and ride it on pavement, what’s the life like? Can you make it a season?
If you didn’t spin the tires you probably could with high quality studs, but that won’t be easy. That’s the problem, 95% of the time the roads are clear, but the salt will make them really slick also. Studded tires aren’t cheap either.
Studded tires on dry pavement is deff a BAD idea.
This is what we did because it was cheap and you just put new screws in when they wore out. Sometimes they pull out and it wasn’t good on dry pavement, but they would hook up on ice and frozen dirt. You take them out and use the tire in the spring and it only costs like $40. Redneck engineering lol.
Awesome:
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I did the same thing with the renegade. Until @FourEyed caught one in the cheek bone following me down the road.
I though someone made a winter studless motorcycle tire.
My buddy had 500 2 stroke, you didn’t want to be behind him lol, but for the most part they stayed in.
Good god, that would suck lol.
well they only were coming loose because @KuntryQuestTSi was trying to do awd burnouts and drifting on dry pavement…
And yes they hurt lol.
Honestly, every year we try to find new-to-me ones. We’re up to five now, yay!
That being said, usually just scour CL. If you don’t mind traveling a little, you can usually find something decent, not needing too much work, for around 500. You could definitely get something older, cheaper, but- well, you get what you pay for. For the most part, the XR/CRF 100’s haven’t changed much other than plastic and stickers since like late 90’s/early 2000’s. Some of the guys we ride with have shelled out huge bucks for big bore/stroker kits, oil coolers, external reservoir shocks, etc., but it kinda kills the cheap/fun aspect after you’re in the hole for like 10k on an four-stroke 100cc bike.
Oh and this picture is one of the best rear ice tires you can get:
They’re Fredette tires; more or less what we try to duplicate with our ghetto setup. Those are pretty much the standard for motorcycle ice racing. They are a bit pricey (~500/pair), but the grip you get on those tires is second to none.
*Edit: the one above is a rear left- (or right-) turn only ones, we use the left&right turn ones.