Show us your winter bikes!!

47p2

Single speed for me now the salt's on the roads, flipped the wheel to fixed today for the first time, made for an interesting ride :shock:

Bookwyse

Am going to be trying this in fixie mode on the clubs easy paced ride on Saturday as I'm the leader of it.



Going to be fun I think!!!

WindyG

My Schwinn is tucked away for winter so I will be using this for winter/commuting, just needs changing to 1x10 once I know what ratios I need. It's a bit heavy but at least it gets me out in all weathers.

lukepm

SecretSam wrote:

Love the spacer/fork cap and seat binder bling - how much and where from?

All standard Giant, nothing extra

chunkymonkey909

I wanted to build a winter bike that I would enjoy riding as much as my summer bike as I usually end up riding more miles on the winter bike. It also had to be practical eg disc brakes and minimise punctures.

Chinese carbon cx frame and wheels, TRP hy/rd discs, Ultegra di2, Armadillo tyres with slime tubes, sks mudguards, etc

robbo2011

I think the Di2 is pointless, but if he has disc brakes, why not the carbon rims? Seems quite a nice idea to me.

And he has proper mudguards so +10 points there.

inseine

chunkymonkey909 wrote:

I wanted to build a winter bike that I would enjoy riding as much as my summer bike as I usually end up riding more miles on the winter bike. It also had to be practical eg disc brakes and minimise punctures.

Chinese carbon cx frame and wheels, TRP hy/rd discs, Ultegra di2, Armadillo tyres with slime tubes, sks mudguards, etc

The most practical yet most awesome winter bike on here. Bravo.

tonye_n

SecretSam wrote:

Love the spacer/fork cap and seat binder bling - how much and where from?

Came as standard with the bike I think.
My Giant Rapid had the same.

bobinski

chunkymonkey909 wrote:

I wanted to build a winter bike that I would enjoy riding as much as my summer bike as I usually end up riding more miles on the winter bike. It also had to be practical eg disc brakes and minimise punctures.

Chinese carbon cx frame and wheels, TRP hy/rd discs, Ultegra di2, Armadillo tyres with slime tubes, sks mudguards, etc

Very nice!

Can you post a link to the seller of the frame?

chunkymonkey909

Thanks

Uk ebay seller is - http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/szxgd
The model is FR-602 cyclocross frame.

Supergoose

The most practical yet most awesome winter bike on here. Bravo.

Agreed.

ben16v

finally finished my winter build

gonna turn into a commuter but for now the knobblies are staying on

ledeev

Here's mine:

Titanium Lynskey frame
Hope hydraulic discs
Ultegra Di2 10s
Supernova dynamo lights
SKS mudguards






It rides really well, the lights never go out, it doesn't get scratched in the bike shed, the gears work as well as they did when I fitted them and it cleans up to new every week!

chunkymonkey909

I'm lovin the titanium.

dave in swansea

Here is my bike, winterised this year.

Bike n+1 will now be required in the spring.

asprilla

I've got to put the 50mm Gilles Berthoud alloy guards on this weekend, but for the moment she looks like this:



Singular Peregrine frame
Velocity A23 rims on Hope Pro 2 Trials rims
Schwalbe Kojak 700x35c tyres
FSA Omega Compact bars
Selle Rolls saddle
Thomson Elite seat post
Ritchey Classic stem
TRP Hylex hydraulic discs
Deda bar tape
Hope headset
Sugino BB
Sugino Messenger crankset (48/18)
Crank Bros Candy pedals

jamsop

Just finished building my winter touring hack.

Still need to work out how to attach the radiator since there are no eyelet for those :?

Ber Nard

Asprilla wrote:

I've got to put the 50mm Gilles Berthoud alloy guards on this weekend, but for the moment she looks like this:



Singular Peregrine frame
Velocity A23 rims on Hope Pro 2 Trials rims
Schwalbe Kojak 700x35c tyres
FSA Omega Compact bars
Selle Rolls saddle
Thomson Elite seat post
Ritchey Classic stem
TRP Hylex hydraulic discs
Deda bar tape
Hope headset
Sugino BB
Sugino Messenger crankset (48/18)
Crank Bros Candy pedals

How are the Hylex discs? Been thinking about putting them on the touring bike. Did you buy direct from Upgrade?

Rob

smidsy

jamsop wrote:

Just finished building my winter touring hack.

Still need to work out how to attach the radiator since there are no eyelet for those :?

OOOHHHH Lynksey - DRRROOOOLLLLLL!

Thought about a Van Nicholas but then saw these and could not live with the 'if only I had got a Lynskey' thougths every time I rode the VN, so I decided to avoid Ti altogether and went for a Genesis.

asprilla

Ber Nard wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

I've got to put the 50mm Gilles Berthoud alloy guards on this weekend, but for the moment she looks like this:



Singular Peregrine frame
Velocity A23 rims on Hope Pro 2 Trials rims
Schwalbe Kojak 700x35c tyres
FSA Omega Compact bars
Selle Rolls saddle
Thomson Elite seat post
Ritchey Classic stem
TRP Hylex hydraulic discs
Deda bar tape
Hope headset
Sugino BB
Sugino Messenger crankset (48/18)
Crank Bros Candy pedals

How are the Hylex discs? Been thinking about putting them on the touring bike. Did you buy direct from Upgrade?

Rob

Don't have many miles on them yet but so far, so good. Apart from an error caused by my in experience with hydraulics (pulling the levers with no discs causing the pistons to close, and losing the master bleed plug when subsequently bleeding the system) they have been easy. Fit and forget.

Upgrade didn't have stock so I got them from Taiwan on eBay. Worked out cheaper too.

tommo7567

My Kinesis Racelight GF Ti with her boots on

thegreatdivide

My first dedicated winter bike built up with purchases from here and kit from the spares pile.



Genesis Aether 10
Campagnolo Veloce PT - 50/34 chainset and 11/23 cassette
Tektro R539 brakes
Fulcrum Racing 3 wheels (on their third winter)
San Marco Regale saddle
Exustar EPS-R pedals
SKS Chromoplastic mudguards
Vittoria Pro Tech 28mm tyres
Deda RHM 01 bars
Deda RS 01 seatpost
Deda Zero 1 stem
Elite Ciussi bottle cage (one is enough for winter)
Various Lezyne lights depending on time of day

tonye_n

jamsop wrote:

Just finished building my winter touring hack.

Still need to work out how to attach the radiator since there are no eyelet for those :?

Hohhot that's beautiful.

mamil_man

Started cycling to work just over 2 months ago. This is what I built to do that on... it'll do for now.
Frame: Dolan Prefisio 58cm
Forks: Alpina - supplied with frameset.
Bars: Ritchey Logic.
Stem: System Ex adjustable.
Headset: ? supplied with frameset.

Brake Levers: Shimano Tiagra 4500
Brake Calipers: Shimamo Sora with Clark pads.

Front Mech: Shimano Tiagra 4500
Rear Mech: Shimano Tiagra 4500

Seat: Flite Titanium - made in 1991 and stored in my loft until last month!
Seat Post: Alpina - supplied with Frameset.

Cranks: Shimano Tiagra 4600
Chain: Shimano HG50

Pedals: Shimano SPD A530
Bottom Bracket: Shimano Tiagra 4600

Wheelset: Shimano RS30
Tyre: Continental 4 seasons 25c. (I rate these, by the way - my commute is inner city sink estates with more glass than Pilkingtons)

Mudguards: Bluemels.

matt-h

nice. a few of us have the Preffisio on here.
I think yours has the most reflectors though

Matt

elderone

Decided to use this now as my winter bike.

elderone

No, it,s just my first bike stripped and polished.

napoleond

Needs Campag or Sram on it.

smidsy

NapoleonD wrote:

Needs Campag or Sram on it.

Nah, needs big yellow Mavic stickers as the wheels are not obvious enough

Oh, and a 'pull here to deploy parachute' sign with a dirty great arrow towards the seat pack too

Iamnot Wiggins

mamil_man wrote:

If anybody ever gives you the old "sorry mate, I didn't see you" then there really is no hope for humanity.