Vintage C&V snowbikes!
01-26-13, 05:05 PM
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Vintage C&V snowbikes!
Let's see them!
My ALAN sucks. Skinny tires, huge saddle to bar drop, drop bars in general, and no fenders to keep my bum dry. Nevertheless, I had to use it in a few inches of the white stuff because I had a very important date, and I'm out of fat tire bikes and the public transport system also failed miserably. In the ALAN's defence, the handling just never ceases to amaze me. I came close to a few nice crashes due to blocks of ice hidden under the snow and some frozen manhole covers, but always stayed in full control due to the awesome geometry of this bike. Here's a pic.
Untitled by ctjr, on Flickr
you can do better, probably. Show us your winter bikes. Improvised, too
My ALAN sucks. Skinny tires, huge saddle to bar drop, drop bars in general, and no fenders to keep my bum dry. Nevertheless, I had to use it in a few inches of the white stuff because I had a very important date, and I'm out of fat tire bikes and the public transport system also failed miserably. In the ALAN's defence, the handling just never ceases to amaze me. I came close to a few nice crashes due to blocks of ice hidden under the snow and some frozen manhole covers, but always stayed in full control due to the awesome geometry of this bike. Here's a pic.
Untitled by ctjr, on Flickr
you can do better, probably. Show us your winter bikes. Improvised, too
01-26-13, 05:21 PM
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Aw, I was expecting to see some kind of medieval looking fat bike!
Tomorrow I'll snap a picture of my Bianchi MTN bike with drop bars and STI's
Tomorrow I'll snap a picture of my Bianchi MTN bike with drop bars and STI's
01-26-13, 05:28 PM
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Schwinn Marada MTB, equiped with studded tires, a fixed gear drive train (lotta control on ice with those two features), front and rear brakes, ridiculously low gearing. Here in some rare Virginia snow:
Took awhile to find a big MTB with horizontal drops.
Took awhile to find a big MTB with horizontal drops.
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01-26-13, 06:18 PM
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Non-descript old GT Outpost. Studded tires, low fixed gearing, and fenders. Its a tank and has greatly earned its keep the last four years or so.
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You guys are nuts, I have enough trouble staying upright on dry roads!
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An unidentified wheelman who set the “overland bicycle record” from Whitehorse to Dawson City is pictured in the winter of 1903. He pedaled about 400 miles on the Dawson Trail in five days. As a comparison in modern winter racing, it took U.K. cyclist Alan Sheldon seven and a half days to ride 430 miles from Whitehorse to Dawson during the Yukon Arctic Ultra in 2009.
Did he actually achieve this mechanically, or book most of it on a sprint sled? Couldn't rightly judge an Arctic wheelman myself...
Here's a link to a fantastic example of true "Rush Ride" that I read growing up in AK. Max Hirschberg & Ed Jesson get much respect for their exploits.
https://www.icebike.org/History/HistBroken.htm
https://www.alaskahistoricalsociety.o...of-the-Past/20
Not to be forgetting the "Klondike bike" which weighed in at around 50 pounds, some featuring two deployable auxillary wheels & wrapped in leather cord. They were ridden along the narrow packed tracks of a dogsled runner in the winter time.
https://www.blm.gov/pgdata/etc/medial....300.217.1.gif
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My regular '71 Raleigh Int'l commuter set up with 700 x 35 Schwalbe Marathon Winter tires:
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I bring snow shoes with mine, just in case.
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may not be vintage, but I built this dedicated winter bike just in December.
nice rear hub!
nice rear hub!
01-27-13, 04:44 AM
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my snow bikes are just usually the 'lowest ranking' in the stable - the bikes that are on the sales block basically
right now my fisher joshua gets the snow duty - its a full suspension bike but you can dampen the spring on the rear so it rides very nice on the road believe it or not
right now my fisher joshua gets the snow duty - its a full suspension bike but you can dampen the spring on the rear so it rides very nice on the road believe it or not
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I have a snow bike partially done. I just can't get into it. I am totally jonesing to ride too.
There are some fenders waiting at the LBS however and a trek 1200000 out back waiting to be ridden!
There are some fenders waiting at the LBS however and a trek 1200000 out back waiting to be ridden!
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my snow bikes are just usually the 'lowest ranking' in the stable - the bikes that are on the sales block basically
right now my fisher joshua gets the snow duty - its a full suspension bike but you can dampen the spring on the rear so it rides very nice on the road believe it or not
right now my fisher joshua gets the snow duty - its a full suspension bike but you can dampen the spring on the rear so it rides very nice on the road believe it or not
Some other things I consider essential in my winter rider are heavily lubed chain and cogs to slake-off ice (I like Boeshield), Steel bars (to take the spills without bending up), Nokian studded snows, and PB fenders. I am an especial fan of the latter because they can take the impacts without shattering.
I think an IGH might be preferable for many, but I have found that the only issue I have with a derailleur is that the cables freeze up in the BB cable guides, not the derailleur itself. Of course, routing the shift cable IGH-style along the TT instead of the DT would help, but with any IGH hub, the indicator chain would have been smashed every time I laid it down on the right. There are trade-offs and a lot depends on how you use your bike.
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I found that 7-speed Nexus transmissions absolutely freeze, even in slightly below zero conditions. Fixed is probably the way to go. Also, i noticed a suspicious lack of full chaincases in the example above! my perfect snow bike has them, for sure.
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I rode to work and back on Saturday. It was nine degrees.
It wasn't that bad! I am not sure I would do more than a mile or two in those conditions.
It wasn't that bad! I am not sure I would do more than a mile or two in those conditions.
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Yep, having ridden thru a few Wisconsin winters, I can attest the above is true. Whatever babble about the superiority of fixed gear has been surfacing over the last few years, the one thing that is true is it is really nice to have control of the rear wheel at all times in bad weather. And snow/ice can clog mechs, too. Simple works better. I recommend keeping the gearing low. I also avoid fenders and chaincases. Just use parrafin wax on your chain instead. Nothing sticks to it. Snow clogs up in fenders, and in the snow you're rarely going fast enough to get a lot of spray. A rear rack works fine.
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01-29-13, 07:16 AM
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Yep, having ridden thru a few Wisconson winters, I can attest the above is true. Whatever babble about the superiority of fixed gear has been surfacing over the last few years, the one thing that is true is it is really nice to have control of the rear wheel at all times in bad weather. And snow/ice can clog mechs, too. Simple works better. I recommend keeping the gearing low. I also avoid fenders and chaincases. Just use parrafin wax on your chain instead. Nothing sticks to it. Snow clogs up in fenders, and in the snow you're rarely going fast enough to get a lot of spray. A rear rack works fine.
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Surely its not the awesome ride that got this reaction. Its a useful and cheap ride, but there is nothing special there. Suicide rear hub, no less.
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