Stumpy Snow bike
 

I found this '89 Stumpy disused and dangerous (note the 24" front wheel and child seat bracket!!!) So I strapped it to the top of my car and took it home. Once I stripped it down I noticed a hole in the drive side chain stay so it was put on my garage wall as 'Art'.

It was too small anyway.

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I then remembered I had some Schwalbe snow tires and a cool front wheel with a Hope Ti hub I had found elsewhere and decided to build it as a Snow bike for the few days a year my commute along a canal path is dangerously slippy.

So the mechanic from my local co-op repaired the frame and we built it up with some parts.



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Here's how it turned out - still too small, but with that long stem it is rideable and stable enough for the winter paths.

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Cool!

I hope it snows at least once around here.

If your snow gets slushy you'll wish you had some fenders. If it gets icy you'll wish those studs weren't worn down.
That's the problem with winter biking for me. There's a narrow range of conditions where it is fun. Outside those conditions it's less fun ..

Right the worse to me is that icy slush that's like pancake batter. Tire won't cut through it and the studs do no good. Just hang on and pray you stay upright....

And a big yes to the fenders. Without those you'll be a mess but more importantly the slush can get thrown on the drivetrain and freeze things up. I've more than one winter ride end with the bike RD frozen so in single speed mode. I learned full coverage fenders and would even cut extenders from 2 liter soda bottles to get even more coverage.

Last time I was on snow, I got close to riding out of my neighborhood. My knobby MTB tires slipped and I slammed the deck then slid quite a ways.

next time I will be on my railed sled!

Did someone say snow bike? How about a 1966 Capo Eis ("ice")? Fixed gear, studded tire. Unicycle? :)

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