Show us your - winter hack

[paulw1969]

I'm not sure that many people on CC get the concept of a 'winter hack bike'!

yes but you havent seen my road bike (joking)

Good bang for your bucks with these bikes

EDIT: i did overspend though

 

[BalkanExpress]

Have been using this for the last 3 weeks, it ain't that clean at the moment.

Are you not worried that if it snows no one will see you?

 

[derrick]

I'm not sure that many people on CC get the concept of a 'winter hack bike'!

How do you define a winter hack.

 

[defy-one]

How do you define a winter hack.

Cheaper than cheap
An MTB so it can deal with anything
Respected but not loved or cleaned
Hardly worth stealing,but always locked up
Scratches galore

 

[derrick]

Cheaper than cheap
An MTB so it can deal with anything
Respected but not loved or cleaned
Hardly worth stealing,but always locked up
Scratches galore

I just got rid of one of them, i don't want another one.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Cheaper than cheap
An MTB so it can deal with anything
Respected but not loved or cleaned
Hardly worth stealing,but always locked up
Scratches galore

I think mine fits that description, but it is an all-year-round hack not just a winter one:

£100 brand new in 2010 and as well as doing roughly 1500 miles each year, it has been taken over Garburn Pass, Claife Heights, Grizedale and is a regular visitor to the Long Mynd.

As you might imagine there are more new parts than original after that lot.

 

[defy-one]

Loving that beaver tail :like

 

[Diggs]

This thread just confirms that I need to put a set of mud guards on my best bike and then just claim it's my winter hack

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Loving that beaver tail :like

That's a new addition & works a treat. The mudguards were cheap ones that I had for an older bike and are way too short really so I made the extensions out of some aluminium sheet. It makes a big difference.

I think they'll look better in black though so I'll do a repaint when the weather improves.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

Forks look bent phil

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

Forks look bent phil

So they do. They aren't though - I have checked.

 

[Bontyboy]

Gotta love a charge spoon, 1 of my faves!!!!!!!

 

[Mallory]

My ice/snow winter hack

 

[Mallory]

 

[davester65]

My hack, not just winter though, i did ride it all year round.

Now decommissioned of all the bling (deore groupset) and in the process of being rebuilt to the original issue kit. Going to sell it to raise funds for my winter project.