I would NEVER ride any bike that was special to me in the winter on salted roads, wet or dry. That is a death sentence for your drive train, and possibly your steel or aluminum frame over the long run. If your commute is 22 miles, your bike will suffer. It takes no time for the lower half of your bike to get coated in brine, and that's with fenders.
My years of commuting year round in Toronto have given me tons of aversion to subjecting a bicycle to winter road conditions. KJ 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.
