Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
The thing is, washing your bike off in the winter when you're going to be going through the same stuff the next day is like rearranging deck chairs on the titanic.
While that might true if you had a string of wet/snowy commutes, there are periods when you get a string of days when the road is dry. It'd be a good time to give the bike a quick rinse, clean and lube the chain, etc.
Same reason the car wash is packed every weekend when the weather is fine.