WINTER TRAINER...WHAT TO GET???

kiwimagic64

I WANT TO GET MYSELF A WINTER TRAINER,AS I DONT WANT TO USE MY GOOD BIKE...MY BUDGET IS AROUND £8OO BUT IF LESS EVEN BETTER........CAN U GIVE ME CLUES AS TO WHAT I SHOULD LOOK AT......THANKS

imposter2.0

look at the caps lock button first...

You want mudguards presumably?

junglist_matty

MUDGUARDS ARE FOR PUSSAYS AND VERY UN-PRO!

SPEND £400 ON THE BIKE AND £400 ON CLOTHING

GABBA JERSEY
NANOFLEX BIBS OR LEG WARMERS
OVERSHOES OR WINTER BOOTS

DONE

cycleclinic

It is a winter bike and if riding in a group mudguards are polite as well as protecting you bike and your bum.

A wet weather bike is just that - mudguards are a must as what is the point otherwise. A dry weather/race bike is for dry weather and should not have mudguards. If you have just one bike get one that can have musguards and wider tyres and take them of when it is dry.

Tifosi CK7 could meet your needs.

sloppyschleckonds

GET A LEMOND REVOLUTION

junglist_matty

thecycleclinic wrote:

It is a winter bike and if riding in a group mudguards are polite as well as protecting you bike and your bum.

A wet weather bike is just that - mudguards are a must as what is the point otherwise. A dry weather/race bike is for dry weather and should not have mudguards. If you have just one bike get one that can have musguards and wider tyres and take them of when it is dry.

Fail....

I have 25mm tyres, crudracer guards don't fit the bike/tyres, I'm not willing to buy 23mm tyres just to fit mudguards because I like the 25's much better (far less punctures)... I had 23 tyres with crudracers, and they rubbed half the time anyway and got full of stones and were annoying as hell.

I do have one of those comedy "MTB" style mudguards that I stick on the seat post (during the dirty winter months) to stop road muck dirtying my clothes from the back wheel spray. My frame downtube is pretty wide so front wheel spray isn't too bad other than my feet get wet.

I also have just one bike, I don't fancy going out and buying a "winter bike" I just don't see the point, in the UK realistic summer months are June/July/August and that's it..... it's wet (or likely to be wet / damp) pretty much 50% of the year. Why should I have to go out and buy another bike that fit's guards and bigger tyres just to make others feel happy? If I'm riding in a group and the guy behind doesn't like "road spray", he has two options:

1. Drop back so it doesn't spray him
2. Ride at the front

Simplez.

markhewitt1978

Winter in the UK is defined as when there is salt on the roads. As you say it doesn't get massively cold and doesn't get massively wet - although the roads are wetter in the winter due to less evaporation. But it's the salt that corrodes everything. Just have to make sure you hose your drive train down after every ride.

markhewitt1978

HE HAS A GOOD BIKE U NO GET ME!!!11one

keef66

You need mudguards if you're going to put in serious miles through the winter.

Kinesis Racelight T2 or Tk3. Originally designed as winter trainers. Clearance for full mudguards and 25mm tyres.

I bought one of the original Racelight Tk's 6 years ago, and have ridden it all year round since then. Last year the mudguards never came off.

junglist_matty

markhewitt1978 wrote:

But it's the salt that corrodes everything

by "everything", you meant "everything steel", which on my bike is nothing; my chain doesn't rust; it's made from Titanium In winter I take it off the bike once a week and leave it to soak in a bucket of white spirit, then I relube (winter wet lube) and refit and ready for another winter week.... Screw cleaning it after every ride, that would be around 10 cleans a week for me, and washing it with a hose will just help to rid the lube and shorten it's life.

junglist_matty

keef66 wrote:

You need mudguards if you're going to put in serious miles through the winter.

:roll:

teamcrane

Have a look at the Dolan website.

imposter2.0

junglist_matty wrote:

markhewitt1978 wrote:

But it's the salt that corrodes everything

by "everything", you meant "everything steel", which on my bike is nothing; my chain doesn't rust; it's made from Titanium In winter I take it off the bike once a week and leave it to soak in a bucket of white spirit, then I relube (winter wet lube) and refit and ready for another winter week.... Screw cleaning it after every ride, that would be around 10 cleans a week for me, and washing it with a hose will just help to rid the lube and shorten it's life.

So no steel anywhere on your bike? jesus...

markhewitt1978

junglist_matty wrote:

markhewitt1978 wrote:

But it's the salt that corrodes everything

by "everything", you meant "everything steel", which on my bike is nothing; my chain doesn't rust; it's made from Titanium In winter I take it off the bike once a week and leave it to soak in a bucket of white spirit, then I relube (winter wet lube) and refit and ready for another winter week.... Screw cleaning it after every ride, that would be around 10 cleans a week for me, and washing it with a hose will just help to rid the lube and shorten it's life.

I think as long as you fit a new cassette, chain and crankset every 150 miles you'll be grand.

iPete

As someone who does SRS miles in the winter, you can live without mudguards but life is whole lot better with them.

kiwimagic64 have a look at the Ribble Audax and Tifosi ck7

junglist_matty

Imposter wrote:

junglist_matty wrote:

markhewitt1978 wrote:

But it's the salt that corrodes everything

by "everything", you meant "everything steel", which on my bike is nothing; my chain doesn't rust; it's made from Titanium In winter I take it off the bike once a week and leave it to soak in a bucket of white spirit, then I relube (winter wet lube) and refit and ready for another winter week.... Screw cleaning it after every ride, that would be around 10 cleans a week for me, and washing it with a hose will just help to rid the lube and shorten it's life.

So no steel anywhere on your bike? jesus...

Yep, no steel at all.... it never rusts