Overwintering bike

"Brian G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I'm going to follow the example I've often read here and get another bike
for winter use. I've never done so before, but I guess it does make

sense.

Quoted message said:

But what do you do with your high season bike(s)?

Shove it in the shed until spring?
Full service, wrap in clingfilm and place beside the bed?

Advice would be welcomed.

Keep it in the hall and ride a normal. Wash it a bit more often than in the
summer.

T

Brian G said:

I'm going to follow the example I've often read here and get another
bike for winter use. I've never done so before, but I guess it does
make sense.

But what do you do with your high season bike(s)?

Shove it in the shed until spring?
Full service, wrap in clingfilm and place beside the bed?

Advice would be welcomed.

Nothing special but my best bike is stored in the kitchen. Make sure the
frame is clean, then before you use it lube the moving parts.

Brian G said:

I'm going to follow the example I've often read here and get another bike
for winter use. I've never done so before, but I guess it does make sense.

But what do you do with your high season bike(s)?

Shove it in the shed until spring?
Full service, wrap in clingfilm and place beside the bed?

Advice would be welcomed.

Mine's just hung up in the garage where it stays dry. It's a good time
of year to consider a respray (and a corresponding disassembly and full
service) as some finishers take 2 months to return the frame.

Brian G said:

I'm going to follow the example I've often read here and get another
bike for winter use. I've never done so before, but I guess it does
make sense.

But what do you do with your high season bike(s)?

Shove it in the shed until spring?
Full service, wrap in clingfilm and place beside the bed?

You don't have to stop using it altogether. There are plenty of beautiful
sunny dry days throughout the winter months. It's a shame not to enjoy
some of those of your best bike.

~PB

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
says...

Quoted message said:

I'm going to follow the example I've often read here and get another bike
for winter use. I've never done so before, but I guess it does make sense.

But what do you do with your high season bike(s)?

Shove it in the shed until spring?
Full service, wrap in clingfilm and place beside the bed?

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Oh please! Don't give Simon any more bright ideas about bike
storage.

Juliette
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Juliette said:

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
says...

Quoted message said:

Full service, wrap in clingfilm and place beside the bed?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Oh please! Don't give Simon any more bright ideas about bike
storage.

Bikes? Who said anything about bikes?

James
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If I have seen further than others, it is
by treading on the toes of giants.
http://www.ne.jp/asahi/julesandjames/home/

Juliette said:

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]
says...

Quoted message said:

I'm going to follow the example I've often read here and get another bike
for winter use. I've never done so before, but I guess it does make sense.

But what do you do with your high season bike(s)?

Shove it in the shed until spring?
Full service, wrap in clingfilm and place beside the bed?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Oh please! Don't give Simon any more bright ideas about bike
storage.

Juliette

Heh. Mine lives beside my bed, but not wrapped in clingfilm - when not
in use it lives in/on the turbo stand, and even if I didn't have that,
it'd still live there, cos it's the only sensible place at the moment
for it...

--

Velvet

"Brian G" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

I'm going to follow the example I've often read here and get another bike
for winter use. I've never done so before, but I guess it does make

sense.

Quoted message said:

But what do you do with your high season bike(s)?

Shove it in the shed until spring?
Full service, wrap in clingfilm and place beside the bed?

I hang my road bike from the garage ceiling on a hook like this:

http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/zhook.htm

Daughter has "nothing to eat" :-)

In article <[email hidden]>,

Brian G said:

But what do you do with your high season bike(s)?

All my bikes are high season.

Quoted message said:

Shove it in the shed until spring?

Full clean and service, tires slightly deflated, gear levers put
where the cable is not in tension, loosen any QR skewers and saddle
bolts and the heating comes on automagically once a day to keep them
warm.

Quoted message said:

Full service, wrap in clingfilm and place beside the bed?

Where can I find 5(?) miles of cling film and a BIG bedroom:-)

Quoted message said:

Advice would be welcomed.

As above - clean and dry.

--
A T (Sandy) Morton
on the Bicycle Island
In the Global Village
http://www.millport.net

Quoted message said:

Full service, wrap in clingfilm and place beside the bed?

I do believe there are places where you can pay a fortune for that to be done,
possibly involving the use of a web cam and premium rate phone lines ;-)

Cheers, helen s

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Pete Biggs <[email hidden]> wrote:

: You don't have to stop using it altogether. There are plenty of beautiful
: sunny dry days throughout the winter months. It's a shame not to enjoy
: some of those of your best bike.

I disagree here. There's still enough salt on the roads that I don't
want to use the best bike on them.

Anyway, this years winter bike is a Chorus/Record/ITM Millenium special
so I won't exactly be slumming it (smug look)

Arthur

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Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org
"Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
- Paulina Borsook

Brian G <[email hidden]> wrote:
: I'm going to follow the example I've often read here and get another bike
: for winter use. I've never done so before, but I guess it does make sense.

: But what do you do with your high season bike(s)?

: Shove it in the shed until spring?

Shed is fine is it's clean and dry.

Full clean, new chain. Relube all those bits that don't normally
get touched. Then it goes in the understairs cupboard till spring
and the salt has gone from the roads.

I usually ride the best bike from mid-March until the end of
October. Sometimes into November if it's mild.

Before I had an understairs cupboard it used to go in the bedroom.
Though I wasn't living with my girlfriend then 🙂

Arthur

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Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org
"Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
- Paulina Borsook

Arthur Clune said:

Quoted message said:

You don't have to stop using it altogether. There are plenty of
beautiful sunny dry days throughout the winter months. It's a shame
not to enjoy some of those of your best bike.

I disagree here. There's still enough salt on the roads that I don't
want to use the best bike on them.

Quoted message said:

Anyway, this years winter bike is a Chorus/Record/ITM Millenium
special so I won't exactly be slumming it (smug look)

Fortunatly I don't own a bike that is so special* that I don't want to
ride it on a nice DRY day. I'm really not bothered about of a trace of
dry salt flicking up. There are plenty of weeks within the "winter
months" when no salt is used anyway, at least down here in the South East
where winter is basically the same as spring and autumn, just a bit
colder.

What harm do you think salt will do to Chorus/Record/Millenium stuff? The
external parts are anodised or carbon, for a start.

* Although I will soon be fitting a Record triple crankset. Yum yum!
(Nearly-new one bought at half price). Plug: 30/40/50 chainrings to be
auctioned soon as I'll carry on with my TA rings instead.

~PB

Arthur Clune said:

Pete Biggs said:

You don't have to stop using it altogether. There are plenty of
beautiful sunny dry days throughout the winter months. It's a shame
not to enjoy some of those of your best bike.

I disagree here. There's still enough salt on the roads that I don't
want to use the best bike on them.

I'm with Arthur on this one.

Pete Biggs said:

Arthur Clune said:

Quoted message said:

You don't have to stop using it altogether. There are plenty of
beautiful sunny dry days throughout the winter months. It's a shame
not to enjoy some of those of your best bike.

I disagree here. There's still enough salt on the roads that I don't
want to use the best bike on them.

Quoted message said:

Anyway, this years winter bike is a Chorus/Record/ITM Millenium
special so I won't exactly be slumming it (smug look)

Fortunatly I don't own a bike that is so special* that I don't want to
ride it on a nice DRY day. I'm really not bothered about of a trace
of dry salt flicking up. There are plenty of weeks within the "winter
months" when no salt is used anyway, at least down here in the South
East where winter is basically the same as spring and autumn, just a
bit colder.

Its grimmer than that up North Pete.

Pete Biggs <[email hidden]> wrote:

: What harm do you think salt will do to Chorus/Record/Millenium stuff? The
: external parts are anodised or carbon, for a start.

Anodising doesn't do well when covered in the mix of pig [censored], cow [censored] and salt
that we get covering the roads up here in the winter. North Yorks are pretty
heavy handed with the salt as well.

Other bad things - the mix of mud+salt works as a nice griding paste and
quickly trashes chains (and hence cassettes, chainwheels and rear-mechs).
I don't want to have to completely clean the entire drivechain after
each ride (which is what would be needed).

BB's get welded in, little bolts get welded in, headsets die (and yes,
I do grease stuff when it goes in).

Of course, my posh bike doesn't have mudguards on, or room for them.
Mudguards with flaps keep most of the crud of the bike (as well as the
rider).

Arthur

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Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org
"Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
- Paulina Borsook

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Pete Biggs <[email hidden]> wrote:

Anyway, this years winter bike is a Chorus/Record/ITM Millenium special
so I won't exactly be slumming it (smug look)

Arthur

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Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org
"Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
- Paulina Borsook

Jeeez,that's some spec for a winter bike.
As a matter of interest,what have you got on your best bike?

s....Six said:

"Arthur Clune" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Anyway, this years winter bike is a Chorus/Record/ITM Millenium
special so I won't exactly be slumming it (smug look)

Quoted message said:

Jeeez,that's some spec for a winter bike.
As a matter of interest,what have you got on your best bike?

Yeah, actually I misread Arthur's line the first time around. I was
thinking that was the summer bike!

~PB

s....Six <[email hidden]> wrote:

: "Arthur Clune" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:>
:> Anyway, this years winter bike is a Chorus/Record/ITM Millenium special
:> so I won't exactly be slumming it (smug look)

: Jeeez,that's some spec for a winter bike.
: As a matter of interest,what have you got on your best bike?

Erm, exactly the same except that the winter bike has a chorus
crankset (39/53) and the summer one has a TA 34/48 one.

The stuff on the winter bike is a few years old now so it's not as
mad as it seems. The stuff on the summer bike is mainly just newer
versions of the old stuff.

Arthur

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Arthur Clune http://www.clune.org
"Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect"
- Paulina Borsook