[Closed] Lets see those winter road bikes (... have I gone too early?)

Y'all be jealous, but don't be hatin'

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Might cobble together some mudguards from a detergent bottle or something.

Toeclip strap to hold your spare tube, cut off milk bottle for mud flap? These are not winter bikes you're posting people.

Pffft.

Bloody philistines!

@mrblobby The Burls has put me in hospital 3 times and I wouldn't have another. Cables are yellow, not green and they went nicely with the orange forks I had. They also complement the purple Hudz.

This is my everyday commuter hack and pound for pound I think the best value bike I'very ever had.
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It needs TLC in the form of a new drive train, a headset and maybe a pair of tyres.

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Don't know why the saddle is pointing up but this gets me out early in the morning and playing with traffic. Light enough for me at 8.5 kg.

My Allez gets used all year.I fitted a new 10 speed groupset the other month,I'll refit the crud roadracers in a couple of weeks,hoping for a Indian summer first 😆
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Not really a winter hack, and is actually the only complete bike I've ever bought (LBS lent me it to try, and I refused to give it back). 'Guards off and a few psi out the tyres for the mountains. It's neither great on- or off-road, but it's replaced my MTBs completely, admittedly I'm at the mincer end of the spectrum. It's ace for my hilly backlane commute, and despite the heavy wheels and weird riding position I'll happily do 6+hr winter rides on it. What I do love it for is the ease of linking 2 or 3 offroad loops using the road, whereas that would be a pain on big knobbly tyres.

Forgive me, Bob, but what is it?

At a guess it's a GT Grade?

Just giving my winter steed a bit of Di2 upgrade love, kindly donated from the race bike...

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... though it has got me thinking that a new internally routed frameset would be nice 🙂

^^^^ bets being taken on which bits you mount upside down ! 🙂

🙂 Just sorting out the cabling under the BB.

Wish I'd put the guards on last weekend now. Tried to get the train to work this morning and apparently the rain has caused armageddon on the rail network.

This was my good bike, its quite old now. I got stolen last December and WYP returned it to me a few months ago when it turned up at some scrotes house. Since the insurance paid out its been relegated to winter. The thieves swapped the wheels for some shimano ones.. Anyway, just needed new wheels, mech hanger, chain and cassette plus crudcatcher road race and its set for the winter 🙂

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The thieves swapped the wheels for some shimano ones..

It took me ages to get the love back for the bike because of that! That and a few scratches they put on it. Its actually a much nicer bike to ride than my new one on the local rutted lanes.

Did they pop the Thompson seatpost on there too? Always think they look a bit out of place on road bikes.

The winter bike Di2 metamorphosis is complete here, it all seems to work (Di2 is bloody brilliant!) and the external kit is fair bit more discreet than I expected. Looks good 🙂

At a guess it's a GT Grade?

Sharp eye there, not the best pic sorry (actually from my little 35mm film camera)

Newish Pinnacle Dolomite, really wanted an Arkose but came to the realisation I would never actually use it off road.

Now with front guard. Will also be getting narrower bars and a different saddle when I get round to it.

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I have a Kinesis T5Disc to take on winter road duties. Mudguards are hanging on the wall somewhere, waiting to be fitted. I just had to have discs after yet another winter of pulling on the brakes, listening to them squeal and then realise that I'm not slowing down appreciably.

The Kinesis is being replaced for off road duties by a Mason Bokeh....when it arrives.

Summer bestist bike in winter mode ... ok, I only got 1 bike 😉

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Definition?

Nice bike Fathomer - was on my shortlist before my Ribble frame popped up cheap.

1x on a road bike is for triathletes who can't tell theirs left shifter from the right.

1x on a road bike is called a compact if you live in Surrey 😀

Tomaso, Teen1 has the same bike for University. I bought it for £100 and fitted some 25c Marathon Plus tyres and fettled teh hubs. It's a nice bike but I do prefer my Paddy Wagon.

To be upfront I am Travers Bikes, I have been working on this little project for the last 2 years. The idea was to produce a winter road bike that was equally at home offroad so I could also do a spot of Cyclocross racing and explore the back roads in the off season. This is my personal bike.
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Taken last year, 2013 Giant Defy 3 upgraded to 105 with guards and also used as the turbo bike. of course the stem was flipped shortly after that test ride. Showing signs of summer salt build up and needs a through clean down but keeps on truckin...

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Here's my new old winter road/off road bike. Just got it back after breaking two years ago in a cx race. A friend of mine who built it is a little slow on the repairs side ;-). It'll get used as a spare bike in the cross season and then it'll get fitted with mudguards for the depths of winter.

Looks lovely, Travers! What sort of tyre clearance are you working on?

Summer:
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Winter:
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Unfortunately not too early at all. It felt distinctly Autumnal this morning out early. Rain, falling leaves, dark. I am alone in preferring this time of year to Summer?!

Here's mine. Campagnolo EPS, Discs, Dynamo lighting, 30mm tyres, Titanium. The perfect combination for a British Winter!

I just had the forks resprayed by John up at Cromaworks (part of the same cooperative as Field Cycles in Sheffield) in a glossy metallic black to give it a fresh look. Much nicer than the standard matte black and easier to keep clean. Seven did a great job of fitting mudguard eyelets and dynamo wire routing to the forks when I bought them originally. I can definitely recommend John's handywork.

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Solarider, that is a very nice. If I was to spec up a winter bike from scratch it'd have a nice Ti frame, electronic shifting (though I would go Di2), and Dynamo lights.

I am alone in preferring this time of year to Summer?!

The novelty quickly wears off 🙂

Here is mine, 28 Schwalbe Tubeless, PDW Guards and Campag Centaur. Comfy and reliable (so far) 🙄

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You may regret the alphas, the brake tracks are paper thin, I've got them on my summer bike.

I really want a kaffenback now for some reason.

I'll keep my eye on them

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Wore mine out in about three months over winter; didn't commute on them either.

Utterly shite rim.

Question for those with PDW guards who run 25mm tyres. Did you get the road or city ones? Their website suggests the road ones are fairly narrow and 23mm max, with the city ones being up to 35mm.

Question for those with PDW guards who run 25mm tyres. Did you get the road or city ones? Their website suggests the road ones are fairly narrow and 23mm max, with the city ones being up to 35mm.

Depends on tyres and rims. 23c GP4000s on 23mm wide rims were ok. 25c Michelin Pro 4 on 23mm wide rims were much too big.

If you're using old skool rims and old skool 23/25c tyres like Michelin Pro3s then you'll be fine. Alot of the newer tyres on the newer rims seem to size up pretty big.

Utterly shite rim.

Great rim, I've still got the original 340g version, but they're reserved for the summer.

Great rim, I've still got the original 340g version, but they're reserved for the summer.

Flexy as hell, tyres blow off them, wear down in three months, cost a fortune 😉

Loads more better rims to make a good wheelset from.

Loads more better rims to make a good wheelset from

After a close inspection I suspect mine won't last the winter, what do you lot recommend rim wise?

They need to be

Rim braked, [b]tubeless[/b] and 32 holes and circa 400ish grammes

Pacenti SL23?, H plus?

Depends on tyres and rims.

Archetypes and gp4000, pretty wide. Sounds like they'll be too wide.

After a close inspection I suspect mine won't last the winter, what do you lot recommend rim wise?

They need to be

Rim braked, tubeless and 32 holes and circa 400ish grammes

Pacenti SL23?, H plus?

http://dcrwheels.co.uk/custom-wheelsets/which-rim/
http://blog.fairwheelbikes.com/reviews-and-testing/alloy-rim-roundup/

Archetypes and gp4000, pretty wide. Sounds like they'll be too wide.

Yeh, if they're 25c (they measure more though) versions then IME they'll be too wide.

This pic of my bike shows you the lack of coverage with 25c Michelins.

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Haven't put the (SKS) mudguards back on yet. Running 28mm Durano Plus tyres

Flexy as hell, tyres blow off them, wear down in three months, cost a fortune

The last is true I grant you, but I'm 100kg and don't get much flex from mine (24/28 spoke, took a few attempts to build them, but once they were evenly tensioned they've been solid as a rock), never blown a tyre off, and have had them since they first came out which is several summers of club runs and general riding.

Thin yes, but they're 350g!

Question for those with PDW guards who run 25mm tyres. Did you get the road or city ones? Their website suggests the road ones are fairly narrow and 23mm max, with the city ones being up to 35mm

I ran the city ones and TBH they only just fit the 28 Schwalbe tyres, but they do size up quite big. I even had to modify them to fit the frame, i.e. grind some bits away around the brake bridge and the fork area 🙁

Speak to Charlie the bike monger he knows what fits what WRT PDW Guards