This is clearly an excuse to buy a winter bike. I have a Surly LHT that I love anyway, but I also don't mind riding it all winter. Having ridden bikes year round in Minnesota for 15 years I'd say that riding in dry, cold conditions with salt residue is not a big deal (Now in Indy the weather is easier but the lack of road maintenance ad plowing actually makes it harder to ride in the winter here). It's the salty and wet conditions that really do a number on components. I also think that if you hose your bike down a couple times during the winter and lube everything every couple of rides, the chances of having any real rust issues on the frame are pretty small. The biggest problem I have is with rusty bolts and rust on the steel parts of moving components. It hurts my heart when I think of all the beautiful vintage components I destroyed back in the 90s...
Look for a late-80s/early-90s rigid MTB and convert it to a commuter. The classic Deore stuff is pretty indestructible. They are fun to build and fun to ride. Brynnar Indy On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 3:40:41 PM UTC-4, Lum Gim Fong wrote: > > Probably better to just put them on for the salty season. > I definitely don't want to ride another kind of bike since my commutes are > 22 miles round trip and I love my Rambouillet for that. > I am careful about mounting fenders and my Sheldon Fender Nuts are still > on the bike so easy on/easy off. Nothing to complain about. > Glad I kept my fenders/rack/decaleur/Berthoud bag!!! > Lately been riding fenderless/rackless with banana sax. > Just bought a Roadeo so will switch banana sax to that and fender up the > Rambouillet for the winter. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
