Sheldon Brown had a fun webpage describing his beater winter bike somewhere in northern New England; IIRC it was a cheap mountain bike converted to fixed or ss with the absolutely most throwaway parts rideable; he'd park it outside all winter and just dump a bit of cheap motor oil on the moving bits every so often to keep it running. Then he'd replace the drivetrain and cables each year.
On Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 1:34 PM Mackenzy Albright < [email protected]> wrote: > ... 2. SALT. Previously living in Alberta, they put some sort of demonic > liquid ice melt on the paths. I used the 45north Kavas on my winter bike > and they were great in all conditions and especially on ice and hardpack > snow. The ice melt would melt through snow and ice making some sort of > corrosive slurry that felt like riding on wet sand at a beach. The ice > slurry ate through an imperfect powder-coat on my SSFGmtb "winter bike". By > spring it was bubbling and flaking terribly and lead to a lot of rust that > I have yet to deal with since moving other than a good scrub and light > oiling. It's fine as "beausage" on my Marino winter bike - but would have > been pretty choked if it were a Riv or Crust 4x the cost and meant as a > "lifer". If they just left the packed snow it'd been fine and i'd ride any > bike in the snow with studded tir > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgsgyoov5-F3KzUo8BrnkEgscsXaKrrwHajHatd0q4i-uA%40mail.gmail.com.
