| Re: riding the winter chop
recycled-one wrote:
> Anyone want to nominate the most winter resistant bikes?
>
> Best chains? Cables?
>
> Would a fixed gear be more durable? Less gizmos to get clogged and corroded?
Fixed does have less stuff to break/wear-out and mine seems to cope
with half-corroded chains just fine. There is no freewheel to get
gummed up by cold-weather either. I don't have direct experience with
one, but I imagine an internal geared hub like Nexus would offer more
or less the same advantages, aside from the possibly corroding cable.
I like fixed, but I think a freewheel would make those occasional ice
patches a little less dicey. YMMV.
Joseph
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