Those pics remind me of snow we had over the holidays, that turned into freezing rain then all froze in a deep freeze so not even able to enjoy any. We have a 100' driveway, 2 cars wide, plus a huge deck, trails to be made for our small dogs in the yards, so it can be a lot of shoveling at once. That is why we have a contractor for driveway. The rest keeps us busy enough during a big storm.

I guess depending of what you have to shovel, how often in a season, and how you ride a bike (leisure or hard), it may be easier for some one way or the other. For me, I would prefer to shovel snow as I'm not that much of a bike fan but one for snow. So it is less torture and more exercise doing my e snow than riding my bike. But we have not really had snow yet. It is thick but from freezing rain, snow, then freezing rain again. We got about 2-4cm today and it was so heavy that it was compacted as if a the snowplower dumped it all in my whole driveway. Not fun to shovel!