6 Top Tips To Ready Your Bike For Winter

And for the new generation of cyclists: Never charge your battery at temperatures below zero.

Are we supposed to believe that Barnabus is using that Pinarello for his winter rides?

Road bike goes in the basement, studded tires go on the old cross bike. It has full fenders as well.

Hey, rider who’s following behind here, please please please mudguard up for the season, mudguards are cool, trust me, cooler than all that street dirt and grime all over your jersey… 😉

No mention of the Scwalbe Marathon winter plus tire!! One of the best!!! I'm disapointed!

Apply a hydrophobic wax on your bike is the way for protect the paint

For winter riding, i take my bike and put in on the turbo 😉

Ride a cheap as chips fixie or single speed bike with mudguards. Then put your fancy bike in a warm dry safe place. 😉

#ASKGCNTECH, I am concerned about repeatedly removing and installing the rear thru-axle on my carbon road bike to put it on my indoor trainer. I do it weekly, sometimes twice or more. I take care not to cross thread it but believe the bike is not manufactured with this intent. How harmful could it be? Should I be concerned? I’m considering one of the low priced, low end bikes because the used, higher quality bikes in my area are still expensive.

Putting your inner tube in a plastic bag should be done year round. I didn’t have a puncture for about 6 months, went to put on my new inner tube and the valve had oxidised and was impossible to open. Had a long walk home.

Can you do a piece on what power meter to get for a time trial bike as many spider meters only seem to go to 53/39 and give me a top notch power meter for raising the issue. I'm thinking crank arm ATM because I've not found a spider option

Good point about area specific! In Montreal winter grease should be lighter! at below freezing temperatures. I actually use oil squirted into the vent hole in the bottom bracket of my "cheap" old steel clunker used for winter. this helps to wash out the salt used on the roads as it leaks out. Also I use oil (heresy) on the chain for same reason, and get a new one in spring. A winter bike, if you can afford the space, is a good idea. Free, or cheap, is best because salt, snow water is very hard on them! Leave it outside (LOCKED WELL) so rusting is slowed right down and you aren't importing snow, ice, salt into your apartment/ house.
For cables, dry and lube them. Coated stainless is best but I cut my housings at the lowest point in every curve so water tends to drain out and you don't have as much problems with frozen cables. It will happen unless you have hydraulic everything, bring the bike in to melt it, dry the cable, WD-40 housing, dry re-lube the cable.
Lights yes!
Tires, once the ice is here I like a studded tire, at least for the front. Sliding out with the rear is usually recoverable, but the front end is more difficult. A lugged tire on back gives usually enough traction. After about 4" of snow on road I have to ride in car tracks as they are doing the work of moving the snow aside. Don't know if I would recommend it to everyone, riding with cars has it's risks.

I have to use Ski-Doo boots, mitts (not gloves), even electric hand warmers, on colder days. (Worst ride last winter had wind chill of -46C, but am hoping this winter better)

I prepped mine by bringing it into the basement and attaching it to the trainer.

I have two sets of wheels for my gravel bike I use for winter riding and CX. After my last CX-race, mid-November, I'll put tyres with spikes on one set. So, when needed, I can switch my bike quickly for ice-winter we often have several weeks in SW Finland but I don't spoil the spiked tyres during the months of – what I call – Euro-winter with rain, mud and temperatures just above zero. On the other set of wheels I have either gravel or CX tyres, for the Euro-winter conditions 😉

Hello, which tyres do you use? In 28C.