Are bikes for standing admiring or for riding ?

kieranb

Don't forget in winter the chances of crashing are greater given the leaves, mud, rain,ice, darkness. Funnily enough I don't have a winter bike I usually change the wheels and add crud roadracers to the bike and leave it at that.

NewTTer

Raffles wrote:

For some of you cycling must be no fun at all :shock:

Opens door and its oh dear that barometric pressure might exude stealth pressures on the wheels and oh my god the council havent been around to hand polish the roads , no way im getting my gp4000 tyres desecrated with road dust................Im not going out and am going to sit and watch Jeremy Kyle and Cash in the attic on daytime telly instead.

Not at all, I would just decide to select something like a CAAD 8 to ride on a day that the weather is unpleasant.

DavidJB

Simon Masterson wrote:

DavidJB wrote:

Component wear is much greater, when a rear cassette costs £160 to replace that makes a big difference. Wheel wear is also much greater on the rim because or all the crap you're rubbing against it every time you break...theres more chance of you coming off etc etc.

The argument that I'd normally make, though it's worth noting that higher quality components may last longer than cheaper ones anyway...

But these are all valid concerns. The best reason to have a 'winter bike' is that your 'summer bike' is particularly specialised for that season. Featherweight tubs, carbon fibre wheels and the like. The point I'm making is firstly that 'My bike might get dirty waaaaaaaaah' is not a good reason to not use it, secondly the wear from riding it in winter is not nearly as bad as some people make it out to be, and finally that if your bike doesn't have fancy wheels and groupset, you have very little to worry about.

My bike does have fancy wheels and a fancy group set... :twisted:

CiB

As long as it has a good wash it should be ok...

Today's paper; some bloke out near Rugby:

mallorcajeff

pave store barcelona in the pics good guess sir!

simon_masterson

DavidJB wrote:

Simon Masterson wrote:

DavidJB wrote:

Component wear is much greater, when a rear cassette costs £160 to replace that makes a big difference. Wheel wear is also much greater on the rim because or all the crap you're rubbing against it every time you break...theres more chance of you coming off etc etc.

The argument that I'd normally make, though it's worth noting that higher quality components may last longer than cheaper ones anyway...

But these are all valid concerns. The best reason to have a 'winter bike' is that your 'summer bike' is particularly specialised for that season. Featherweight tubs, carbon fibre wheels and the like. The point I'm making is firstly that 'My bike might get dirty waaaaaaaaah' is not a good reason to not use it, secondly the wear from riding it in winter is not nearly as bad as some people make it out to be, and finally that if your bike doesn't have fancy wheels and groupset, you have very little to worry about.

My bike does have fancy wheels and a fancy group set... :twisted:

Good for you.

tiredofwhiners

DavidJB wrote:

Component wear is much greater, when a rear cassette costs £160 to replace that makes a big difference. Wheel wear is also much greater on the rim because or all the crap you're rubbing against it every time you break...theres more chance of you coming off etc etc.

Whilst factually accurate that there will be increased wear, one could use the same analogy for a car and having two sets of tyres. There simply isn't any real data on how much extra wear is involved buit I suspect that its a lot less than you might think.

I doubt that the level of increased wear is anything like the doom mongers say as one will be using brakes less than 1% of the time at a guess and if you are that concerned, you could say that cold weather wears out your base layer quicker due to the additional layer over the top so one should avoid using it

moscowflyer

CiB wrote:

As long as it has a good wash it should be ok...

Today's paper; some bloke out near Rugby:

He's got the best of both worlds, he takes his bike out in the crap weather and it's still clean when he gets back.

AchillesLeftKnee

CiB wrote:

As long as it has a good wash it should be ok...

Today's paper; some bloke out near Rugby:

Now that's what I call confidence in bearing seals!

Bordersroadie

n+1 can be a problem.

My dry bike doesn't get wet.
I built a new wet bike.
I decided my new wet bike is too good for winter commuting.
So I upgrade an MTB with rigid carbon fork, lighter weight kit, a pair of Gatorskin-clad wheels.

And I can now stand and admire two bikes, while one gets filthy.

Until n+1 again. . .

teebs_123

My Scott Foil is being used all year round. Cleaned after every ride, and I'll probably replace the cassette and chain in Spring next year (will have covered 3000 miles on the original set by then).

I've put some cheap Shimano wheels on and crud racers to protect it as much as possible.

1_reaper

mallorcajeff wrote:

Both but I think they are great t admire too if kept well and in the right surroundings. When money allows I want to have my bike room looking like this. Then you have best of both worlds, something to look at then when you want take one out for a ride.

Now that's a bike room

pilot_pete

CiB wrote:

As long as it has a good wash it should be ok...

Today's paper; some bloke out near Rugby:

I doubt he stayed upright for the full duration of that ride!!!

PP