Birmingham post your bikes/faces/places

There's every reason not to take that bike on the road, even with clinchers. It's a nice bike that doesn't deserve ruin by salt, grit and all the other bike-polluting crap that comes off the road

That bikes not going to disintegrate when it hits the street. Its a modern strong aluminium frame, it would be fine even if you stripped off the paint.

The only thing that can be potentially fucked by salty street filth is chains, not a problem if you clean it occassionally.