What is a Winter bike?

[Tin Pot]

Amateur

I'm not counting the six that are buried in the garden shed

Actually I need to start finding homes for the old kids bikes.

 

[vickster]

I'm not counting the six that are buried in the garden shed

Actually I need to start finding homes for the old kids bikes.

Indeed to make space for you n+1

Maybe look for a Ribble winter bike or similar on fleabay?

 

[Tin Pot]

Indeed to make space for you n+1

Maybe look for a Ribble winter bike or similar on fleabay?

I'm trying to find just a frameset, my love affair with Cinelli is still strong:

~£600 new, but if I can get a cheap frameset I can furnish it with Veloce instead of the standard Shimano 2300.

 

[steveindenmark]

I am obviously anally obsessive then because my Carbon Di2 is not going out in all the slush and salt in the winter. Or maybe it makes more sense to take something a bit more suitable for the conditions. I have a lot to choose from.

My main bike in the winter is my steel Kickbike scooter for several reasons. There is no chain, crank or gears to mess about with. I am very close to the floor, so getting round those really bad patches of snow and ice is easy, I just get off and walk. It has got good sturdy tyres and is simple to clean. I don't commute on it every day during the winter, it all depends on the weather forecast but I am often riding when everyone elses bikes are tucked away.

 

[T4tomo]

Looks like the bastard lovechild of a bike and a scooter.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I love the insulated flask instead of the bidon, a lovely local touch that!

 

[Profpointy]

I 've always owned one of those old fashioned waterproof bikes. Any sensible combination of steel, aloy and carbon fibre seems to be fine. I don't understand the notion of a summer only bike. Obviously you want mudguards regardles of season.

I do understand the notion of a pub bike, which is a different thing,although I don't currently posses a pub bike.

Surely if you have a summer bike and a winter bike that means two mediocre bikes rather than one really nice bike

 

[steveindenmark]

I 've always owned one of those old fashioned waterproof bikes. Any sensible combination of steel, aloy and carbon fibre seems to be fine. I don't understand the notion of a summer only bike. Obviously you want mudguards regardles of season.

I do understand the notion of a pub bike, which is a different thing, although I don't currently posses a pub bike.

Surely if you have a summer bike and a winter bike that means two mediocre bikes rather than one really nice bike

The bike I use mainly in the summer is a Koga, carbon Di2 roadbike. If I want a bike with pedals in the winter it is my Koga World traveller. Neither are mediocre bikes. I don't have mediocre bikes. They are good makes and are all in very good condition. I actually long for a rat bike :O)

 

[Profpointy]

The bike I use mainly in the summer is a Koga, carbon Di2 roadbike. If I want a bike with pedals in the winter it is my Koga World traveller. Neither are mediocre bikes. I don't have mediocre bikes. They are good makes and are all in very good condition. I actually long for a rat bike :O)

Yebbut you could still have had a super duper bike rather than two merely very good bikes then.

 

[steveindenmark]

Yebbut you could still have had a super duper bike rather than two merely very good bikes then.

But it would still not do the job of a roadbike and a world tour bike and a scooter

I have 8 bikes and like the change in riding something different.

 

[Profpointy]

But it would still not do the job of a roadbike and a world tour bike and a scooter

I have 8 bikes and like the change in riding something different.

Different bikes for different jobs I get. Road bike, fixie, brompton and pub bike say. But I am rather mocking summer and winter versions of the same thing.

It must be admitted my idea of a road bike does have mudgaurds and a pannier rack, so more of an audax bike I guess.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

Different bikes for different jobs I get. Road bike, fixie, brompton and pub bike say. But I am rather mocking summer and winter versions of the same thing.

Who is it that you're thinking of that's got two versions of the same thing? I appear to be just about the only target of a few mocking posts here, for having the bare faced cheek to have a different bike for bad weather. And yet I've got one carbon road bike, and an aluminium hybrid with winter tyres and mudguards. Not the same thing at all.

 

[Profpointy]

Who is it that you're thinking of that's got two versions of the same thing? I appear to be just about the only target of a few mocking posts here, for having the bare faced cheek to have a different bike for bad weather. And yet I've got one carbon road bike, and an aluminium hybrid with winter tyres and mudguards. Not the same thing at all.

but seriously though, what harm does water to the "summer" bike?

And why would you want to downgrade to a flat barred bike because it's raining.

I sort of understand the "with and without mudguards" thing. Well I don't really understand as I'd want mudguards regardless, but understand others don't want them for some reason..

Although I am (slightly) piss taking, I still don't quite see summer and winter as meaningfully different bike wise. Off road, yes, touring maybe and pub bike or folder. - sure. But I struggle to see the summer winter thing would benefit in the slightest from a different bike

 

[fossyant]

Winter bikes are for anal obsessives who feel precious about their other bike but dare not ride it for fear that it might get a teenie weenie bit damp. Between October and May, they keep their best bike in a glass case, like an embalmed dead pontiff, and kneel before it in supplication.

Of course, although no glass case.

 

[Profpointy]

leaving aside the summer winter thing, it can be a bit silly to have a "best" and "everyday" version of things otherwise you can end up only using the rough one and not enjoying the good one. There are things like best suit versus painting trousers, or best screwdrivers versus opening paint tins screwdrivers - a rule I've had to introduce in my establishment - but I'd not have best screwdrivers merely for looking at and everday screwdrivers for actually using