I'm lucky (er, "lucky") to live in a place so cold that there's no point salting the roads, so I don't worry about corrosion. I do worry about sharing the road with drivers when the roads are covered with ice or snow (from now till sometime in March). Something about seeing a car in the ditch every few miles makes me nervous on the bike.
Riding trails in the snow is a blast, though. It takes a lot more effort, but it's just ridiculously fun. Right now I'm doing my snow riding on my Hunqapillar with 29x2.1 Nokians, but sometime in the next couple of years I'll get a fat bike. The design has been refined beyond the Surly Pugsley (I'm leaning towards one made by Wildfire Designs: http://www.wildfirecycles.com/fatbikes.html ), but the largest Pugsley does have a 62.4cm effective top tube. Driving my bike to a trail was a psychological hurdle for me, but if it gets you out there, it's not something to feel bad about. On Oct 16, 9:16 am, Garth <garth...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm wondering what folks in the North do for the Winter. > > I've been riding rollers in the winters, but this year I'd like to get > out on the road or tail some. I thought of putting together a > sacrificial beater bike, but when you ride tall/long(62-63cm TT) > frames, such things are rare to non existent. > > I sort of cringe at the thought of using my Bombadil on our local > roads as they are always covered in steel mill slag(black steel making > by-product) and calcium chloride, which is even worse than salt. It > sticks to everything like glue, and eats steel like mad. Fenders help, > but it's still a mess. > > I do have a rails to trails Panhandle Trail somewhat nearby, but it > requires a vehicle to get to. If I got some Nokian studded tires, it > would be okay. Dead flat, but at least there are no chemicals on the > trail. I don't mind snow, rain or slush, but I really hate the > chemicals. > > I have a long term goal to move somewhere I can ride year round > without ice and snow, but for now here I am. > > What do you folks that live in the cold do for the winter? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
