Ok, I confess, I'm a wuss, I like
my bikes way too much to ride them in the Winter Slop!! We live in a 3rd. floor, one bedroom apt. so I don't have a place to "wash off the crud" and my lovely bikes would become piles of RUST quickly!
IF we had more room, (we have 4 bikes now), I'd by a "BSO" from Wal-Mart and put studded tires on it and just let it RUST away and buy a new one each winter, then it wouldn't bother me to watch it slowly die away into a even more POS. There I've confessed, you may throw stones at your pleasure!