What is a Winter bike?

[CanucksTraveller]

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

Now you're taking a completely different tack. You wanted to know why people have two versions of the same thing, but I don't, and we're yet to find someone that does. I have two different bikes to do two different things, that concept that you were in praise of three posts ago.

On nice days I like to ride longer distances. In the worse winter weather I don't enjoy that, and the other bike is just a utility one. I also don't enjoy cleaning bikes in cold weather, so the Trek is the stand in as it can corrode a bit and I'm not going to get upset.

 

[NorthernDave]

I'm currently keeping quiet about having two road bikes in the hope that Mrs ND forgets and I can keep my Road Comp with mudguards for those filthy days when you want to get out but don't want to get soaked / covered in the crap off the road.
Although the irony of having rim brakes on the "winter" bike and discs on the "best" one isn't lost on me.

Plus if I bin the Road Comp it won't be the end of the world. Imagine having an icy off on the Pro Carbon...

 

[mattobrien]

I have a good weather bike, an intermediate weather bike and a wet / bad weather bike.
There is also the commuter/pub, MTB and Brompton.

The intermediate and bad weather bikes have both got discs. The intermediate has clip on guards and bad weather has full time guards. Neither will wear out rims through braking in grimy conditions.

The summer bike has carbon rims, so not best suited to bad weather, plus the components weren't cheap and I'd rather spend my time wearing them all out in the sun and dry, than more quickly in the rain.

I'm currently hankering after a fourth road bike and can't think of a new weather based categorisation, so I think it would simply become a second summer bike.

 

[Andrew_P]

I have a winter bike!

Carbon - Hydro Disc Brakes - Ultegra - Dt Swiss 240s Hubs - Light Tubeless rims - Full Long Mudguards. Wide Bars It is brilliant for the job/

I like to enjoy my riding through all weathers. Ridden my Cannondale Supersix Red through one and half winters and it was demoralising the wet the mess and with a groupset that's if f'ing expensive to replace parts.

 

[davidphilips]

why people have two versions of the same thing, but I don't, and we're yet to find someone that does.

lol guys i see nothing wrong with having 2 versions of the same bike and would indeed like to have 2 van nicholas, lots of women have mega amounts of shoes all look the same to me (the shoes not the girls) so why should a keen cyclist not have some bikes even if they are the same.
as for winter/summer bikes i tend rather to think of utility/fun bikes every one to there own happy and safe cycling to all.

 

[Jenkins]

why people have two versions of the same thing, but I don't, and we're yet to find someone that does.

lol guys i see nothing wrong with having 2 versions of the same bike and would indeed like to have 2 van nicholas...

That would be me then I have a pair of Van Nicholas Ventus (Venti?) - One which was my 50th Birthday present to myself and de-stickered, blinged up with the Ti spacers, seat collar and runing a Campagnolo Zonda wheelset and run in the dry only as my best bike, the other which was picked up in a factory clearance when the exchange rate was most favourable, and standard except for Superstar Components wheels and full SKS Raceblade Long mudguards for commuting and any grotty weather riding.

 

[Lee_M]

the answer is really simple. a winter bike is the excuse for the other half as to why you need to buy another. It doesnt need to be a winter bike, but that's what you call it.

More seriously, my winter bike is aluminium, with mudguards and disc brakes. My summer bike is carbon, ludicrously expensive and fickle in the BB area and therefore I try to keep it out of the worst sort of weather that acts as grinding paste

 

[mythste]

I'm very proud of my bikes. They're one of very few "luxuries" in my life.

Trek Emonda SL8 RED - nice weather, Sunday morning blast sort of a job, I'd be catastrophically upset if I wore out a £200 cassette through crap weather/salt spray/icy crash. I could absolutely replace it with a £50 cassette and probably never notice the difference to ride. But I'd know, and that would diminish my utility.

Genesis Equilibrium Disc 20 - Everything else, mostly commuting and long distance stuff. I love that most components have been replaced a few times, I love that she has scratches and spends her life with a rack and mudguards on for all but the most special of occasions. She's the loyal old dog that still puts up a hell of a fight when I'm in trouble.

I'd call my Genesis a "winter" bike for the ease of conversation, but in reality it's a whole lot more than that. It's reliability and safety in a bike that I know better than most partners I've ever had.

It's love!

 

[Seevio]

While, thanks to previous threads, I now have my eye on a Planet X London Road, for now my "winter" bike for all those cold wet miserable days is a Ford Focus.

 

[Tin Pot]

You wanted to know why people have two versions of the same thing, but I don't, and we're yet to find someone that does.

I have two bikes, both Cinelli Experience.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I have two bikes, both Cinelli Experience.

We found one!

 

[Elybazza61]

At the moment I currently have five bikes which cover most bases;

Planet X XLS is the all-year round commuter,it's carbon has no eyelets but can take bigger tyres(30c currently) and I can fit mudguards(Axioms) via the wheel drop-outs.Plus it's run with a 1x10 drivetrain as it's flat around here and keeps things simple.

The real #1 is the Ridley Helium SL which is the glass case bike and get's put away from around October to March;I don't worry about it getting wet and dirty but don't really want to use it in the depths of winter and fit 'guards to it when I have #2 which is;

A Ridley Icarus SLS;same geometry as the Helium but it's ally and has cheaper kit on and although it doesn't have 'guard mounts I use Raceblades which enables me to fut 25c tyres on.Main reason for the 'guards is that on the winter club runs mudguards are compulsory.

Also have an 80's steel Graham Weigh ss which is used all year round(can fit the roadracers to that) and the soon to be finished Trek mongrel hybrid which is now a drop-bar tourer/hack which can also be used for commutes.

The only bike I could do with is an mtb but there's no room left to put one ta the moment;think I need an extension

 

[Tin Pot]

We found one!


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Sadly, neither have mudguard eyelets.

 

[John the Monkey]

On numbers of bikes;

"seven is good. a beater, a bomber, a single-speed, a tour- ing bike,
a lightish road bike, a do-all racked and bagged bike, a mixte, a
loaner, and a work in progress. seven? Make it nine."
-Grant Peterson

 

[jowwy]

My winter bike is the most expensive i own........so saying its the cheapest you own is wrong