Originally Posted by thedevilisbad

Hey everyone!

For the last month or so I've been volunteering at our local bike co-op (which just got started at the end of the summer, more on that in another thread). The guys keep razzing me about not riding my bike there, so I think I'm finally going to give in. The problem is that I live in Michigan and my only nice bike is my Cannondale touring bike.

The guys told me look at some of the older bikes with fenders, and that I can probably just have one, but besides being old and gross, they all had skinnier tires which don't do well in Michigan winters. I do happen to have a nasty old Huffy mountain bike that I won in a drawing (is brown with black spots, like a cow!).

My idea is to convert it to a single speed since the Derailleur on the bike suck. Could I add fenders to it easily? Any other mods I should look into? Any tips I should know about?

Luckily I used to be a runner and I still have all of my winter clothes form that, which will be helpful on those really cold days!