Re: [RBW] Winter Photos 2024/2025

[Jay Lonner]

When I get home after a muddy ride I do… nothing. I figure the worst of it will wash off in the next downpour. GP has talked about taking inspiration from steel bikes that see decades of hard use in Africa and Asia, so I reckon my Gus can handle a little dirt. I’ll lube the chain before I take it out again, but that’s pretty much it. I’ll stipulate, though, that back home in the PNW we don’t use road salt. When I lived in Madison, WI for a time in the early oughts I trashed the brakes and drivetrain on an XO-1 during my first winter there. I then bought en El Cheepo bike of dubious French provenance from Goodwill and set it up as my winter commuter as a singlespeed with Nokian studded tires. If faced with those conditions again the Gus would stay in the garage. I may be cavalier about trail grime but I’m not a monster. Jay Lonner Bellingham, WA Sent from my Atari 400 On Feb 1, 2025, at 6:14 PM, Jason M <jason.bike...@gmail.com> wrote:  @Jay Lonner - your bike is a mess lol, and those rims, yikes 🤣  .  When you get home after a ride like that do you clean the drivetrain, the whole bike?  Just curious, as I would like to become more okay with letting my bike get like that. I baby my Riv; I know, it's a bike, it's meant to be ridden and get dirty.  I do ride in any conditions, but in the winter I mainly use my Salsa Fargo with fenders, disk brakes.  Happy to get the Riv dirty in the summer, on trails and such, but avoid wet and/or salty winter roads. On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM Jason M <jason.bike...@gmail.com> wrote: Nice photos, Jason and Jay! I was out on my Fargo today, won't bother uploading another photo of it (non-Riv lol).  What caught me off guard was my, now, failed, trick to keep my hands warm with nitrile gloves (as the first layer, under thin gloves, with lobster mits on top).  On my last few rides this worked well down to -12C.  Today was very sunny, but apparently -9 and colder with a slight northerly wind.  After an hour my hands were very sweaty, and then because really cold.  I had to pull over and ditch the nitrile gloves.  Within a few minutes my hands were warm again.  Maybe it wasn't cold enough for them? On Sat, Feb 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM Jay Lonner <jay.lon...@gmail.com> wrote: The Gus continues to delight.  <image0.jpeg> Jay Lonner Bellingham, WA Sent from my Atari 400 On Feb 1, 2025, at 5:50 PM, Jason Fuller <jtf.ful...@gmail.com> wrote: It snowed overnight at lower elevations (but not in the city) so I headed out for a ~42km ride into the valley where I knew I'd encounter snow - and there was the perfect amount!  It packed into the fenders pretty good, but the wheels kept spinning (noisily). I was glad to have the fenders though because it was slushy in the transition area.  <PXL_20250201_231113223.jpg> <PXL_20250201_234226505.jpg> -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/082d0941-eb5d-40c2-9a09-e8a1632e2b09n%40googlegroups.com. <PXL_20250201_231113223.jpg> <PXL_20250201_234226505.jpg> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/w63ueD9quX4/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/D34C4B9D-92E3-419B-9BAC-3BC782712AB2%40gmail.com. -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAPceVDg5A_6hzWqYGnmMX%2BzhVXuRc7d_YWDQCoPhi4bVp3fMgw%40mail.gmail.com. -- 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 view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/B389ED71-1F79-4A56-946F-90EF0B9E74C2%40gmail.com.