Fair enough
Still unsure how much gunk you have to build up to really feck up a bike to the point that it's 'trashed'
Winter Rides....what you using?
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Still unsure how much gunk you have to build up to really feck up a bike to the point that it's 'trashed'
This-is-my-Field
Dirt Disciple
Mines a combination of riding in the equivalent of grinding paste plus the fact that two weeknights every week soon takes its toll.
I only clean the chain after a weeknight ride because it's around 9pm when I get back so not really possible to clean it properly.
Then just take the other bikes out at weekend
I ran my enigma through winter the first year I bought it. The consumable’s it needed cost nearly as much as the London road I purchased to use the following year.
I went though 4 x sets of grx pads, 2 x chains , 1 set of jockeys , 1 x BB , 1 set of tyres, 1 grip tape . 1 set of headset bearings. Cost about £400.
When it’s a decent level bike these cost a bit to replace so I decided a winter bike at £700 is a good idea.
I do have a "winter" bike and do ride every day, BUT have avoided mud for last few years. For this year I bought a non-retro Univega, which on heavy rain days is also put on the basic turbo trainer, which I use under shelter but outside. Health (and age) requires daily exercise, averaging over 100 miles per week, tarmac and tow paths/bridle ways. Not very mtb stuff I'm afraid.
MattiThundrrr
Kona Fan
It's different when there is salt and slush in play. Will devour chains and cassettes in a season, and steel frames and chrome die a horrible death. I won't ride roads in winter. Not even with the full winter setup
Sand, grit and salt kills the polished alluminium, strips decals or bleaches them out. Hosing a bike every ride gets water into everthing....mechs, freehubs etc, which will degrade them and their moving parts. Chains and sprockets ground by crap in the acres of clay mud.....let alone brake tracks ground out way before their time.
What's NOT going to wreck a bike in that lot! Hence using a bike that i dont particularly care about and that has easily and reasonably cheaply replaceable parts.
A mud bath mixed with sand and salt, and hosing twice a week, is going to do a nice xtr m900 front mech all the good in the world
...... where as a bit of sumer trail dust.......
What's NOT going to wreck a bike in that lot! Hence using a bike that i dont particularly care about and that has easily and reasonably cheaply replaceable parts.
A mud bath mixed with sand and salt, and hosing twice a week, is going to do a nice xtr m900 front mech all the good in the world
...... where as a bit of sumer trail dust.......Similar threads
