[h=2]Why have a winter bike?[/h]
Winter before last, even here in Atlanta we had a sudden ice storm followed by weeks of ice and snow, very choppy ice with re-frozen snow on top and for several days no way was my road bike going to make more than half a mile with me on top of it. A winter bike would have been handy (had the offices not all closed down). Your bike probably IS a winter bike, but then some of the inclement weather can be really hard on a bike and you hate to subject your nicer bike to that.