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I think I could live with decent plastic mudguards fitted at winter and maybe clip-ons for summer when I get up and it's lashing down.
So plastic guards for 10 months of the year, clip ons for a month and a half and a fortnight with no guards then? Just get some decent (metal) guards and leave them on all year.
Isn't fixed in summer, frewheel in winter a bit backwards? Thought the idea was fixed in winter to keep your knees moving and warm? That said, I don't use my fixed during winter but that's because it's got no guards and it's my 'good' bike.
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I'm in the process of getting out of the recreational cycling game, at least for the foreseeable future and am going to be a one bike guy with 44 miles/day of commmuting. I'm selling up and looking to build this one bike for year round commuting, but have run straight into the impossible problem of wanting one bike to fill the role of the 4 or 5 that it's replacing. But however I look at it, this seems to be the thread I need.
I have lockers/showers at work so can take enough clothes for a fortnight in a backpack or just drive. So all I need to carry daily is puncture/tool kit and a tupperware container of bait. Currently this goes in a Camelbak. Now I'm riding a Look 464 9 months of the year with a mix of Cree/Lezyne USB lights (leave the house at 5am, get back at 5pm) and a Haro Mary with Hope R4/District lights, front rack and pannier and full GB steel fenders/long flaps the other 3 months.
I want something that's light, fast, fun, comfortable and not encumbered with wires, cables, velcro'd batteries etc. I love when I get off the MTB onto the Look at it's so solid, quiet and simple.
Can I do better than an All City Nature Boy Disc with a set of summer (fixed) and winter (free - already have a new Hope Trials wheelset) wheels? I don't think having a single bike, I could give up fixed, though a 1x11 Macho Man being faster giving quicker commutes is tempting. My concern is that if I take a heavy Nature Boy, add mudguards, lights, wires and cables, maybe a basket etc, I'll end up with something that's just a drop bar version of current MTB and that's grim.
I'm wondering how sensible it'd be to send a Nature Boy to someone for modifications to allow internally wired dynamo lights and brake cables (TRP HY/RD). I think I could live with decent plastic mudguards fitted at winter and maybe clip-ons for summer when I get up and it's lashing down.