I use my IGH in rain and snow/slush but it feels like a boat anchor after the cf bikes. The weight is demotivating.

AI says only the Monarch folding is cf with IGF. Don’t want folding

Found the Momo but seems to be out of production

https://www.wired.com/2007/09/momo-stylish-ca/

Why do you come here when you have AI to help you put on your pants in the morning?

Thank you for the update. I will continue to do nothing with this new information.

AI didn’t mention the Momo. Found that on a search.

Apparently one was on Kijiji our online market a few months ago.

OK, good to know that AI did not suggest you buy a bike which is no longer produced.

Yes. AI is clever that way.

the only current production is a folding

Ive set my parameters on Kijiji in case another Momo appears

Your decision to create search parameters on a used marketplace site has been noted.

Not sure why IGH makes any difference compared to a external geared hub. It's probably going to be the bike itself that is a slug. Though perhaps you don't have the gearing you need with the IGH bike. However that could be solve with a IGH that has the gearing you need.

Failing that, the only reasonable course of action would be carbon wheels and fork. That should pep it up.

Does AI tell you to oil that belt using one drop-at-a-time or drizzle it?

Mostly salt and slush in winter when the outdoor water is turned off.

Even just a new fork is going to be more than the bike is worth. And a new fork won't pep up anything.

Carbon wheels will just give you better feel for the road. And that missing input could be what you interpret as having pep. But your actual increase in performance certainly won't be worth the ridiculous investment you just made in the bike.

The bike is a slug. Face it.

But also realize that riding in rain will make most any bike feel less peppy. The water on the road increases the rolling resistance. Or so I'd think. Not sure why you favor that bike for rain, snow/slushy conditions over any other bike. CF doesn't care what you ride in.

Does this even concern you a little bit?

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Save your Canadian pesos and HTFU.

Puttering about the countryside, laden like an Uber Eats driver on delivery, is not my thing.

the only reasonable course of action is to spend $1000usd or more on carbon wheels and a carbon fork?
...what about just buying tires that aren't total pigs when it comes to rolling resistance? Crazy idea, I know.

I don't putter around when I'm in the country. I'm probably closer to the speed limit than are the motor vehicles that I encounter. However I am on on opposite side of the speed limit than they are.

Urban traffic noise is just a nuisance to me. Unlike when I'm in my car which insulates me from it, I have to endure it sometimes when on my bike. But only till I get to the peaceful sections where I can haul ass, safely.

Agree on the tires but bike stored outside in winter so no tubeless and I have Reynaud’s so no changing tubes roadside winter.

Much passes over the OP’s head. I’ll try to remember to dumb it down in the future.

No helmet on means there's even more room for stuff to pass overhead.

Between my wife, children and my bicycle, I'd hate to be in the position of determining which will have to stay outside in the winter.

So far, I've not had to make that choice.

Winter riding around here often requires studded tires or knobby tires both of which are going to have higher rolling resistance then add ice and snow to the mix and it becomes even more work to keep moving.. Rolling resistance isn't a priority when there is ice and snow on the roads and trails. The priority is traction and safety.

I had Marathon Winter Plus studded on the bike last winter. Pic is Grenadier Pond. It was a blast for about 4 days, then the ice became too bumpy after a melt/freeze. The studded tires were great on straight ice, but reality is it's mostly salted slush when you're riding on Toronto streets/bike lanes after a storm, and straight Marathons performed as well and rolled better. I'm not putting on the studded this year.

And I thought that he was going to putter around the countryside to Montreal until he set eyes on his daughter’s “nubile” boyfriend, or some other excuse like that. So many stories I can’t keep them straight. Like the other one about moving to OK or wherever.

I think water on the road actually decreases rolling resistance - as the tire rolls, the contact patch continuously spreads sideways - that friction has to be paid for somehow. Wet road = less friction. Maybe it’s my imagination, but I always fell like the bike rolls easier on wet pavement