Someone please start a thread about Rivendell-esque winter beaters, with lots of photos.
It has been 10 years since I owned a real beater, since I work at home and have good relations with the local grocery stores I use that let me wheel my custom errand bike inside for shopping, but I have fond memories of many — from severely demoted 1992 XO-1 to an even more severely demoted and fix-ified 1995 Riv Road custom, thru paleolithic long-stayed, flexy (Cadillac!) Raleigh Technium fixed gear to various early ‘90s drop-bar conversion mountain bikes to a Dahon Hon Solo folding fixed gear, not including many other 3 speeds and mixtes and Collegiates that didn’t stay long. +1 IMO for fixed or single speed, or IGH. We don’t get much rideable snow here in ABQ, NM, but recall riding in ~4” of wet snow on my Matthews “road bike for dirt” and having snow so pack up the cassette that the chain wouldn’t track properly on the cogs. On Fri, Dec 5, 2025 at 8:41 PM Ian A <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm going to throw in a vote for an 80's mtb. I ride my with 2.15" studded > 26" tires under fenders and single speed. Currently with flat bars, but > ride it for years with drops. I kind of like of like it with the flat bars > for winter riding and it actually does service as a lock up around town > bike in the summer running Big Apple tires (2"). > > Pros are cheap, fun to ride, love the single speed winter maintenance and > perfect for grocery runs. My bike is a late 80's Rock Mountain "fully > rigid" that has gone quality in its bones. > > IanA Kitimat BC > On Friday, December 5, 2025 at 6:58:47 PM UTC-8 Jay wrote: > >> I like my Roadini a lot. I would like a bike for winter / wet weather / >> touring that is as close to the Roadini from a fit perspective, with drop >> bars, but with a bit more clearance so I can run fenders nearly full time, >> with perhaps a 38-45 studded tire in winter, and something in that range >> the rest of the year. The new Hillborne looks good. Not sure what works >> best with fenders in terms of mini-v (for drop bars), canti's or maybe >> something else. Goals with the brakes would be: short pull for use with >> levers like Tektro RRL Ergo, clearance for fenders and as big of a tire as >> I can fit, and ease of adjustment. I wouldn't be removing the wheels >> often, mainly when switching tires for winter vs. rest of the year, and >> seldomly rest of the year. >> >> Any other bike options? Has to be for drop bars (for example, Appaloosa >> too long of a top tube to use with drop bars; for me at least, as I don't >> like a long reach). >> >> Thanks! >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3f1a0c5f-37f7-4de2-86a6-0e8d201367edn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/3f1a0c5f-37f7-4de2-86a6-0e8d201367edn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfguat9U0NDpBC1M9Y4uLT7z0Pgx%3D%2Ba0hsNphD145bouFLQ%40mail.gmail.com.
