Who uses their 'best' bike for winter?

[HLaB]

I'll change my wheels on my best bike and fit guards and I'll still use it despite having another, at least I will when I get round to removing a seized bolt.

 

[snorri]

I've just looked up some receipts to see which bike is my best bike.
Looks like it's the Galaxy I bought in 2000, just ahead of the '99 Trek hybrid, thus leaving the most used Raleigh Pioneer of '96 as my "worst" bike, but it's not!
I still don't use the Galaxy when there's salt on the road, cos it's my new bike.

 

[Scotchlovingcylist]

Which parts need replacing after winter riding?

Sorry I should have clarified.
I only replace parts when they need to be not just because it's been winter.
My bottom bracket, cassette and chain are currently on their last legs, as well as bar tape looking scruffy but I want to eek the last out of them this winter and then change them for summer

 

[slowmotion]

I ride the same one all year round, commuting, weekends, whatever. I really like my current bike and it would to be a shame not to use it as much as I possibly can. It just gets even more dirty in the winter, that's all. It doesn't bother me. I'll clean it if and when it does.

 

[arallsopp]

My summer bike has battery lights. My winter bike(s) have dynamos. That's about the only differentiator.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

My bikes are selected on the basis of a loose selection process based around "How long? How far? Where to? Am I stopping a while en-route? Which bikes are ready to ride? Which bikes are at the front of the shed? What mood am I in? What do I fancy riding?". They nearly all, bar I think one, have mudguards fitted all year round, and about the only sort of bike I don't have, and have no desire to own, is a road race bike. Maybe if I was three stone lighter and thirty years younger...

 

[MrGrumpy]

I could use my best bike on dry days and I mean roads dry not damp but not worth risking sliding down the road on wet leaves and other debris or ice! So at the moment its my fixed gear for winter duties and wet weather. Hoping to add a CX bike to my stable but again wider tyres in use for that.

 

[DWiggy]

I only have the one bike

 

[Crackle]

I don't do it by seasons but by function. Road bike, mtn bike, touring/ambling bike, shopping bike. And for winter I have running shoes

 

[si_c]

I have two bikes, Road and MTB. The road is used for all my commuting and leisure riding purposes, and the MTB gets used for all MTBing purposes. Winter or Summer, it's all the same.

 

[AyJay]

Just bought a "winter bike" today. Road bike does not have enough clearance for full mud guards. I am more concerned with not getting myself wet and grubby than worrying about the road bike.

 

[vernon]

What's all this talk about winter bikes? My autumn bike has only just been wheeled out. Don't wish your lives away.

 

[AllForbes]

I use my bike year round as well and it hasnt rusted plan on using it this whole year as well. I really enjoy riding.

 

[simon.r]

Full mudguards, triple chainset and disc brakes on my Winter bike.

I could use my best bike, but the thought of getting salt and slush all over the shiny bits just doesn't seem right

 

[MrGrumpy]

Of course someones winter bike could well be someones idea of best bike