Originally Posted by
rumrunn6
it's gonna suck, it always sucks, can't remember the last time early April was beautiful
Like rumrunn6, I'm in the Boston area; we had an April Fool's Day blizzard several years ago---no joke. Nonetheless I'm hoping to take the studs off the beater mountain bike in early April and bring out the carbon fiber.
I recently posted to the Metro Boston thread about hibernating the Specialized S-Works:
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
…BTW, I am now riding just my beater winter bike even though the roads are nice and dry, because I don't want to expose my beautiful Specialized S-works to any salt.
Am I being too fastidious? I even considered buying a cheaper road bike for the winter, but decided to stick with the Cannondale mountain bike.
Originally Posted by
dz_nuzz
C'mon Jim. Gotta go get that Roubaix dirty, its only a real bike once it sees bad weather.
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
…My Roubaix already has had its baptism by riding it once this summer in some drizzle. I spent a couple days cleaning the chain after that using the
Sheldon Brown Chain Cleaning System as pictured below.
No Más. 
