Winter bike / Snow bike thread

that's ace! what tyres you think he's running?

Look like Surly Nate 3.7s

Conditions look prfect for 45NRTH Husker Du's tough.

looks like a lot of fun for sure

I have a PDf catalogue for that Ti Sandman.

Looks to be a full on trail fattie. Kinda how mine seems to be developing, but then I'm thinking I'll keep a CX commuter for winter roads, and have the fatty for winter trails (but dont tell Mrs Smallfurry, she thinks its functional)

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My beater with deep-V's and CX tire @ 2am through hackney downs back from a night out. SO MUCH FUN powering through the snow across the park!

Oh and this looks like fun too:
http://www.zapiks.com/snowday4bikes-4-feb-2012.html

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had this out all day, only crashed once

I really love the older mountain bikes. You can see the evolution of bike design in them, they're the missing link between a road bike and a mountain bike as they are today. Such a quick evolution too. It's kinda why I like hardtails, that reminder of where they came from.

Damn, I want to go look at some old mountain bikes now.

Edit: One treasure trove found:
http://oldmountainbikes.com/bikes/

Awesome, 1986 Ritchey Annapurna

The Annapurna's were the most expensive of their bikes, and were modified into their C range for competition riding. Usually fillet brazed with fake lugs painted on.

that is a beaut!
I saw a Colnero (snide Colnago ) MTB yesterday, NOS with 'Gilco' esque profiled tubes, looked the nuts

Charliethebikemonger.co.uk has the new retro looking ritchey 29er. So nice!
http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/ritchey-p-29-29er-mountainbike-frame-1691-p.asp

The reason I went for the Cielo was because it seemed to hark back to these roots. There's something really nice in that period of mountain bike.

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I had this covering most of my textbooks at school:

http://oldmountainbikes.com/catalogs/ritchey/1997/ritchey1997_03.jpg

The reason I went for the Cielo was because it seemed to hark back to these roots. There's something really nice in that period of mountain bike.

The skinny tubes of my Spotbrand, with its metal flake paint job. Is pretty retro. The geo and weenie build is fugly modern though.

neon(ish) pugsley

Here's one fore you SF...

mmmm yeah.

looks like a smooth ride :(

do you have chains?

had never seen them before.

Its bad enough doing 2.5 hour rides on Nordic spikes. Chains would be nasty.

Ukrainians cycling on the Black Sea last week, more pix at http://www.yaplakal.com/forum2/topic402664.html

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anyone tried the nokian winter spikes, I might be able to get a few in from norway thu a distant family member but they are hella expensive
any thoughts?

awesome

Really nice looking tyre combo too.