Plenty of road treatment in the winter precipitation here, it's cheaper than plows to clear the accumulation and less damaging (read: less costly) to patched roads come springtime. Dry salty winter roads are a momentary status quickly overcome by the effect of the next precipitation or cycle of thawing temps and sunshine.
I bought a sacrificial anode Disc Trucker commuter for those special purpose, and put VO Zeppelin aluminum fenders on it. I add the Schwalbe 700x40 Winter Marathon tires for the very slippy conditions. No fears about fender binding so far. Had the same set up before using a Karate Monkey frame with drop bars. Andy Cheatham Pittsburgh On Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 10:42:57 AM UTC-4, Paul Choi wrote: > > Maybe consider a cheaper dedicated winter bike that you don't need to > worry about getting wet or salty? > > On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 9:07:24 PM UTC-7, 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.
