Advice from a full-time cyclist: be back home by 1 PM
Thanks bro, let me just tell my boss I’m leaving 4 hours early. This article was written for one person and one person only: the author.
None of these are problems that prevent me from riding in the winter.
The biggest issue I have with winter riding, by a long shot, is road salt. I hate the fact that riding in the winter, even once, means that I’m ruining my bike somehow because of road salt. If not for that, I’d be out nearly as often as I would during the warmer months.
My partial solution to that was a belt drive bike, less that can rust. 1 year so far with no rust.
for a regular bike, I replaced all my rusted bolts with titanium ones and aluminum for ones that are not under load, hot waxed chain with no drip wax ever and a bottle of 99% isopropyl that I use to flash off the water. I used to take the chain off and dunk it but work has infinite iso so I just use the pinhole sprayer directly on the chain. If I cared about the finish of the frame maybe I wouldn’t do that but it doesn’t seem to affect this one.
hot waxed chain with no drip wax ever and a bottle of 99% isopropyl that I use to flash off the water.
Can you elaborate? This will be my first year with waxed chains, and your method seems interesting.
Do you just wipe the waxed chain off after returning home, then hit it with 99% isopropyl alcohol?
How many km between immersion waxes?
“plan your arrival time, not departure time”
My arrival time is the time I have to be at work without getting fired.
