Your bike.

[wethepeople]

Lets see/hear about your winter ride.

Frame: Old Hyper BMX that I custom painted.
Fork: Old Marazochi Z1 freeride, custom painted.
Cranks: Specialized.
BB: Sealed American.
Bars: Wethepeople Le-tigre.
Headset: Solid sealed needle bearing.
Tires: Walmart special with 48 sheet metal screws in the front, 78 in the back.
Wheels: Alex mx22 front, Voxom Race back.
Brakes: Tecktro's, with lotsa tar on the rim, to help stopping.
Seat: DK.
Seat Post: big pipe.
Pedals: Odyssey Twisted.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v419/wethepeople101/winterbike.jpg

Lets see some of yours :).

[oilfreeandhappy]

If there's rain, ice or snow, I always ride my old beater mountain bike - it's a Shasta Kiliminjaro (pictured, on a real sloppy day). I don't think they make them anymore, and I've never seen anybody else riding one.
I estimate that it has over 40K miles on it.

If the forecast is good, I ride my Bike-E recumbent. The high pressure road-like tires aren't very good in slick conditions, but I enjoy the ride more.

[diff_lock2]

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c346/diff_lock_cr-v_awd/snowz%20bikez/Img001Medium.jpg

[ViperZ]

My 1988 Rocky Mountain Wedge, Custom Hand Build in Vancouver. It is made of Tange Prestige Tubing and is all fillet brazed construction. It was a bike ahead of it time having features like sloping top tube, top mounted cables..etc before it was standard practice for an off road bike.

It is still currently old school 7 speed XT, which was upgraded from 6 speed XT. It still rides and operates wonderfully despite it's age. I have just picked up a set of Continental Spike Claw 120 for the winter. They are not mounted yet.

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/9820/ahid21og6.jpg

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/637/wedge2pq4.jpg

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/8493/wedgedu1.jpg


The other ride is my GT K2 Karakorum which is my main commuter. I run this with slicks, however I put on knobbies for the winter.

[2manybikes]

winter bike(s)

[CBBaron]

For decent conditions I ride a fixed touring bike with 35mm tires. When the weather gets bad I get out my Monster bike:
http://tinypic.com/30a9dms

Craig

[ViperZ]

^^^^ Those tires are out there :eek:



winter bike(s)


2many, whats the story with that front fender? Is that lower mud flap portion factory or did you fabricate it yourself?

[2manybikes]

^^^^ Those tires are out there :eek:
2many, whats the story with that front fender? Is that lower mud flap portion factory or did you fabricate it yourself?

It starts as a Topeak DeFender, Then I bolted on another piece of a fender I had. Then down to the ground needs to be flexible so it will go up over snow and objects, That's two thicknesses of mtb tube folded over on itself and glued together. You really need two thicknesses, one will not work. You can see it flex up over the ice in the photo.

Then I filled gaps near the fork with thin pink insulation foam used on the sill board to foundation joint on houses, covered with black tape. I used that over the rear brake too. I used black tape folded back on itself to make the fenders wider where I wanted to. It makes great custom fender flares, cheap, lightweight, very easy to do, keeps the mush off, and is so cheap that if you destroy it who cares, rip it off and do it again. All this tape and stuff is a few years old, maybe 4 or 5. No problems with it coming off.

[Portis]

http://xs208.xs.to/xs208/06440/IMG_5603.JPG.xs.jpg (http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs208&d=06440&f=IMG_5603.JPG) CLICK PIC

Trek 4300, with Surly Rigid Fork, Brooks Saddle and a few other upgrades.

[Shiznaz]

CBBaron, that bike is too badass for words. You should try to find some plastic sheets with steel anti slip floor texture to use for fender material and paint it silvery
http://www.dacocorp.com/img/psteelfloorplate.gif

[late]

I picked up a Bridgestone T700 touring bike
in a yard sale for $20. I have a ton of spare parts,
so I have been turning into a commuter.
Needs a bigger stem, then the bars get rewrapped and
I finally get to ride it.

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/runciblelate/photo/294928803057656841/12

[late]

Picked up a Bridgestone T700 in a yard sale for $20. Needed quite a bit of help.
Rear wheel has new cartridge bearings, nice old 36 or 40 spoke wheel. Brooks saddle, Salsa Poco bars, almost new Conti TT tires, new chain and freewheel,
got new stem coming with a shorter shaft but more extension cause that one is
waay too short. I really like the way it rides. I wouldn't use it on a long ride, but for around town it should be ideal. I have some lights waiting to go on as well, it should weigh a ton when it's fully loaded :eek:

http://new.photos.yahoo.com/runciblelate/photo/294928803057656841/12

[ViperZ]

It starts as a Topeak DeFender, Then I bolted on another piece of a fender I had. Then down to the ground needs to be flexible so it will go up over snow and objects, That's two thicknesses of mtb tube folded over on itself and glued together. You really need two thicknesses, one will not work. You can see it flex up over the ice in the photo.

Then I filled gaps near the fork with thin pink insulation foam used on the sill board to foundation joint on houses, covered with black tape. I used that over the rear brake too. I used black tape folded back on itself to make the fenders wider where I wanted to. It makes great custom fender flares, cheap, lightweight, very easy to do, keeps the mush off, and is so cheap that if you destroy it who cares, rip it off and do it again. All this tape and stuff is a few years old, maybe 4 or 5. No problems with it coming off.


Thanks for the indepth detail 2many, thats looks to be a wicked fender :beer: :)