How Much Invested In The Snow?

[Portis]

How much money do you have invested in the bike that you ride in snow/sleet/slush?

My bike only cost me $350 but I just can't bring myself to ride it in the slop. I guess I baby it too much.

Total means invested in the bike not in gear, etc. I am only talking about bike and components. Not talking about lights, bags,racks,clothing,etc. Bike components mean parts that came on the bike although they may have been upgraded.

[Juha]

A pair of studded Nokians, and that was years ago. I believe they fall somewhere between USD50 and USD300.

--J

[naisme]

Are studded tires upgraded components? I have two sets in the past two years. how about my fixed gear hubs and MA3 rims? I would hazzard a guess that in all I am still under 300, cause the bikes I ride in this ice and snow stuff I dumpsterdove for, they were free. I forgot, I replaced the BB with a sealed BB, so I might be in that 300 + range, but that's also over 3 years.

[pinerider]

How much money do you have invested in the bike that you ride in snow/sleet/slush?

My bike only cost me $350 but I just can't bring myself to ride it in the slop. I guess I baby it too much.



I'll have 3 for riding this winter, my 92 Norco Katmandu that cost me $90 at a police auction about 8 years ago, my 85 ish Norco Bush Pilot from a thrift shop that I've sunk about $60 into and my 95ish Raleigh Ambush ($22 at the police acution) that I had to buy a $17 crank and a $15 tire for.

I agree, it doesn't matter what you have invested in it, I hate to ride a nice bike in the slush and salt. My best MTB only cost me $100, but it's not doing any winter commuting!

[woof]

If I feel like riding my 2003 Cannondale F800 and it's salty, sandy and slushy I'm going to ride it. I no longer treat my bikes like precious works of art to be preserved for posterity. Even if my riding style shortens the life of my bikes I'll probably replace them out of boredom before they're totally wrecked anyway.
Not drinking, drugging or having babies allows me this indulgence.

[iceratt]

I have two bikes that I ride. One is always for use when the other has a flat!

Thats almost true. I ride my mountain bike through thick stuff and over frozen lakes. As often as I can, I ride my trek touring bike, because I'm a commuter who is always racing to get to work on time, and it is definately the faster biwheel. So far I've never had a bike disintegrate undernetheath me.

Each of my bikes cost 5-10 times as much as the average that people are profiling here. I got the attitude when I only owned a bike that cost was not a big issue, because I was spending so much less than I would for a car. I still think that biking is so environmentally and socially correct that I can indulge myself, if it means that I'll ride slightly more than if I didn't.

[naisme]

Oh and I invested some time and .89(USD), drank two liters of Mt Dew and have a new fender!

[Mtn Mike]

No special investments here either. I ride the same bike rain, snow, or shine. AT first when I got my new bike, I was a little concerned about rust. But I got over it, and now it happily goes in snow. I don't buy bikes to look pretty in the garage. My only snow investment has been a set of Moto Raptor 2.4 tires so hopefully my ride will float on the snow.