I had pedaled through a few heavy Maine winters on a Surly Karate Monkey and Ogre -both fenders. Maine sees quite the range of snow from wet apple sauce to the powder to ice. I gave the bike a good wash before winter and light frame waxing. After each storm just wiped it down w/ no issues. After one season though I pulled the cranks and bearings off to see what the BB looked like -there was a very light coating of salt. The frames were framesaved, so no harm there. The bottom bracket has outboard bearings on those. The drive train took more of a beating from all the grime.
On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 12:07:24 AM UTC-4, Lum Gim Fong wrote: > > Yes, fenderless. > > I grow increasingly concerned, over the years, of front end wrecks due to > the possibility of fender or rack failures as I have read about them > happenning, and now the latest blagh post. I meticulously mount fenders so > as to be as in-built stress free as poss. But I still wonder if one day the > clock will run out. > > So I have stopped riding with fenders and racks and find that a nice > banana sax and bartube or Brooks Milford are good enough for my load > carrying and no need for racks/fenders. > > But I cringe at the thought of riding fenderless on salty winter roads on > my Rambouillet. I only ride dry roads in winter, and around here that means > white with dry salt. > > If you have run your Rivs fenderless on dry salty roads, how have they > fared? > > Thanks for relating your experiences! > > -- 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.
