Winter Road Bikes

Lovely stuff

very nice build @ghostface

Some fresh Kinesis full metal guards on the winter bike. Ready for some rainy miserable miles.

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Looking at that delightful stem angle, im thinking theres nothing old about it. Verr-nice.

I thought these come with flaps...

I'm lazy...

Pls install flaps

The new Veloheld Icon has potential. Room for (without fenders) 34mm tires.
Not cheap though.
https://www.veloheld.de/veloheld-icon-rahmenset-mechanical/

Out of interest, what would be a respectable weight for a "fast" winter road bike with disc brakes, full guards and larger winter tyres?

7.5kg

8kg realistically

The price is close to some All City gas pipe frame, it's made in Germany and you can get
custom paint, that's very cheap.
But for a winter bike the icon.x would probably be better.

10kg is fine for a winter bike. That could be because I live in a wind tunnel of a county though.

Under/around 10kg would be pretty good going without splashing loads of cash.

Remember that winter bikes purely exist to make your summer bike feel better.

Although saying that, with discs you can run nicer wheel year rounds without fear or smothering them with the grinding paste

Cheers all. This came out bang on 10kg with the PDW's, 35's and winter tubes (9.5kg with 30mm Corsa's and light weight tubes). Even with the slouchy geo I wouldn't call it a dull ride. Probably not for this thread though so apologies for the spam

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Looks proper that. Such function.

I think my Ti bike came out around 7.8kg but that has a fair bit of carbon including the mudguards

Probably not for this thread though so apologies for the spam

I'd say it was absolutely right for this thread, myself.

Crank ID? Rotor obviously

Could come down to 8kg with a spyre instead of the Hy/rd at the front @jono84

Tubes?!

Is that an arkose?
Yours looks nicer than mine did!

New for me winter build.

Ti frame bought off @TW a while back then swapped the 5800 groupset off my old Spa Audax bike. Bought a pair of vcg Hope Pro4’s off eBay and used other bits I had.

Perhaps not beautiful but perfect for my needs and rides wonderfully

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Put some 700’s on this for winter road riding. Recently put some mudguards on but just took a snap before removing them.

700s are really wide. Super nice having cushty road tyres in the winter. Running 30’s which come up 33mm.

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Love the colour, is that original paint?