Today I finally got to mount the brand new studded Hakkapellitta tires on my 110 HCPU. I used to have terrain tires, several years old. And since a blizzard hit us with a foot of snow and hard winds with the usual warning from the national weather forecast agency I drove to work veeery cautiously this morning.

But on the way home from work I passed the tire workshop where the new tires waited for me. And the difference is tremendous! The constant rumble from the roch hard rubber disappeared. And I could really step on the brakes without skidding! With the old tires I have developped a technique where I never used the brakes but a lower gear to decellerate.

The last mile home is a small countryside road where the snow from the fields has gathered. In a regular car the heaps of snow is better overcomed by the use of full throttle and a war cry " towanda!". This time I went through the piles of snow with great dignity. I just love the Defender! In moments like these I can easily forget and forgive the fact that a Defender is a noisy, slow, smelly, uncomfortable old bucket with very little heating. I cant wait until tomorrow when I will have to climb the heaps of drifting snow, not necessarily where the road runs.

Greetings from a very snowy Sweden.

Sounds like a laugh, don't forget the though, :nopics::nopics::nopics::nopics:

Hakkapellitta actually has two 'i's. Jsyk.

It was pitch black when i came home. No possibilities to take any pics. Sorry. And regarding the spelling of Hakkapeliitta: I assume that the stress is on the i:s, but I don't Finnish spelling or pronouncing particularily well. Anteeksi.

I was being a pedant

And I forgot the smilie!