Just wondering who has a different bike for foul weather commute and what is different.

I have a summer bike and rain bike. I use the rain bike mostly in the winter or whenever it rains. My rain bike is a cyclocross bike with sufficient clearance for full fenders. Other than the fenders the bikes are setup the same.

I like having 2 commuters but both have fenders.

I have 3 different commuter bikes and they all have full fenders. For winter riding I just change the tires and keep everything else the same.

Yes, but maybe not exactly in the way you'd think. I have a winter bike that is newer and more expensive than my other two bikes.

The bike I've been riding the most from Spring through Fall is nearly 30 years old. It's a decent enough bike but nothing special.

Foul weather in your area must be quite different. Don't worry.

Kind of what I was thinking. I have a CF bike for the weekend rides and a LHT for touring. Been thinking about a cheap aluminum bike with fenders and a rear rake for foul weather/commuting. Looking at Fuji Sportif, Specialized Diverge and Cannondale CAADX as possible bikes. But they are all on the high side of what I want to spend.

My Safari is my bad weather bike. Disc brakes,full fenders,wide tires for rain/studs for snow. It was my daily commuter,and since it's already taken a beating,I just keep using it rather than mess up my other bikes.

Well thanks to Black Friday, I now have a 2014 Fuji Sportif 1.1. Going back on Friday for fitting. Then a little 30 miles test ride on Sunday. :-)

I've got several bikes that I use for commuting, and none of them are beaters. I had one set up with fenders that I rode when the weather was rainy or threatening. However, we've had so much rain this year that I got tired of riding that one bike all of the time. So, now I have 3 bikes with fenders and I'll usually ride whichever one is the dirtiest when it rains.

Old MTB. studded tires, Drum brakes .. my Bike Friday has disc Brakes .. one below 0C, the Other Above, Raining Heavy.

I just picked up a 2006 Specialized Hardrock Sport off Craigslist for $40 because it had two flat tires and the seller clearly was unable to repair it on his own, and didn't want to pay his LBS $50 to make it right on a bike he was getting rid of. He tried to fix it himself without knowing how, and failed miserably. He had even bought a replacement tube, which he threw into the deal. The front just needed air. The rear needed the aforementioned tube. I spent about an hour fixing the flats and truing the wheels, and just cleaning it up a bit, and the bike is good to go.

This new acquisition just became my bad weather bike.

Bad Weather? You are not exactly in for much More than rain down there in SO CAL

except for the Mudslides after the fires killed the stuff holding the soil .

My commuter is just whatever bike I happen to be commuting on, but I do indeed have 2 rain bikes. Fenders are the biggest difference from the rest of the fleet, one also has a chainguard and a coaster brake, the other has a triple and v-brakes with koolstop salmons... both are ideal for wet conditions, ironically though I tend to wet ride on my fixed gear with only one brake and narrow tires, it seems to give me better control than any other bike.

86 Gazelle with fenders and a fixed drive train.

It just started raining for real in Pasadena. Yeah, I know. It will be gone in a day or so and then not rain for a long time. But I think this winter we will have a lot of rain for a change and I just built up a single speed steel bike with a leather Brooks saddle. So I'm going to find a worthwhile aluminum track frame and build it up durable but cheap and with maybe a Cambium saddle. And fenders. Maybe beaten copper fenders and glow paint. Wheel lights. Rear light that throws the LED lines down behind. Kind of go Blade Runner on the design.

Well, rain is what I was referring to by bad weather. And BTW, it's pouring today - the first REAL rain we've had in months here.

Thar be bad weather down in Los Angeles, if'n you head to the mountains with a mountain bike. Cloud caps, 'electrical storms, rain, hail, sleet, snow, mud, ice, bear **** and gator tail trails that go up in both directions. And you will question how much your body has to do with your soul, yeah.

Seems like a simple question until I considered my stable

My regular commuter (a CX bike) is set up for foul weather with fenders and an IGH. It works well except on super snowy days when I'll ride my fat bike. I also ride a few other bikes for the commute just usually not in foul weather. BUT I've ridden all my bikes in very foul weather when NOT commuting. So yes, I have go to bikes for foul weather commutes. But at the same time, I'll ride any bike in foul weather.

Yeah. I don't really have a bike that is too precious to get dirty. There's one that just won't work on ice and snow and I'd prefer not to get salt on all of them. Nevertheless I am currently using two different bikes for the first chunk of this winter.

I currently have my Bianchi hybrid set up with studded tires and fenders, so this would be my most foul weather bike. However, I quite dislike riding it when the road is just wet but no snow. None of my other bikes have fenders so I can't ride them in the rain either. But I'm thinking of putting fenders on my Rapid flat-bar road bike to be used strictly as a wet weather bike. I would then ride my vintage Gardin racer in fair/dry weather. That way I've got all the basis covered.

I have 4 commuters that I use on a regular basis...none of the beaters. I only run fenders if I absolutely have to which is from about now until May. I have a road bike with fenders for rain,



a mountain(isn) bike with fenders and smoother tires for light dustings of snow and when things thaw (which is about 3 days after any snow here in Denver),



a mountain bike with fenders and normal knobbies for light, dry snow days and for deep dry snow as well.



Finally I have a Moots YBB with studded mountain bike tires for snow packed/icy days. (It's in summer plumage in this picture)

All of my bikes have fenders in case I get caught by surprise (plus I think they look better and more "complete" that way), but my bespoke wet-weather bike has a singlespeed chainline (currently set up with a Sturmey Archer AW 3-speed hub), a Sturmey Archer XL-FD 90mm drum brake in front, a chainguard, and a waterproof saddle. Also, Schwalbe Marathon tires with reflective sidewalls and puncture protection, for increased visibility and reliability in nasty conditions. I'm currently on the third incarnation of this basic build, the first two having been just singlespeeds, and the very first version started off fixed...and until this current version, they've all had drop bars. The second version was on a different frame, which fit me better but was totaled in a collision.





My main/nice-weather bike (well, now...last year it got ridden through all kinds of nasty weather) is a 2011 Bianchi Volpe with derailleur gearing, a leather Gilles Berthoud saddle, WTB All-Terrain tires, canti brakes (with Kool Stop pads)

My winter bike is an older Huffy MTB.....................