Budget Winter Biking - How I Winter Bike without a Fat Bike
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- In this video, I'll show you my low-budget winter biking setup. We'll hit the local trail in Anchorage, Alaska on my 90's mountain bike with a few modifications. I'll also show you how I dress for winter biking.
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I need to show this to the babies in Northern Ontario that say you cant bike in winter in the north. Youre further north haha. I was out today, -9c and somebody told me Im nuts its too cold. Only thing Im nuts for is biking with unplowed bike lanes and multiuse paths, thats a city problem not a climate problem.
Hahaha. Yeah, -10 C is about my usual limit for the cold, although I've been out colder than that. Here in Anchorage, they groom our multipurpose trails for cross-country skiing and biking. Do they do that where you live in Ontario? Also, our fat bikers pack the mountain bike trails so they ride well in the winter. We have an established culture of winter bikers.
@@CyclingAlaska sadly the city doesnt plow any of the bike or multiuse trails. They barely do the sidewalks. Mountain bikers thankfully pack the fatbike trails down with snowshoes, or the 2 bike networks we have use proper groomers. Then of course you have skidoos everywhere making nice bike trails too. Check this video out its a bike lane I use most days to get to the fat bike trails, recorded it yesterday after just 1 snowfall a week ago. In that time they did nothing to help cyclists get around, then car owners wonder why we are.on the road or sidewalks 🤦 ruclips.net/video/O3icr-3CA6M/видео.html
im in ontario and got really sick of the god awful city busses and they literally push snow into where all the bike racks are they love to do it at my school
Greetings from FInland. For my daily 30km commute I mainly use my gravel bike in the conditions you described and whene ever the heavy snowfall comes its fatbike time :) I also noticed that at least here the studded tires are pretty much mandatory also with fatbike if you ride any paved roads as they get slippery as heck after they have been cleaned several times.
Wow! 30km commute! That is a good ride! Actually, my studded tires are "Made in Finland." I have traveled a bit through Finland in the past, but unfortunately not by bike. I've been to Utsjoki Village and the North (in winter) and Tampere, Turku, and Helsinki (in summer). Love your country!
@@CyclingAlaska Heh, thanks man. Lapland is the place to be in the winter :)
I am Wyoming where most of our winter is similar to this video. Same set up here on 90s MTB. With 26” ice spikes. I also have racks with one pannier to doff/don and stow layers as needed. We are inland Rockies and plains, and temps conditions can change rapidly. Commute and rec riding.
Thanks for the comment! Glad you are rocking the 90s MTB too! Great way to make use of an older bike. I bet you get some colder temps than Anchorage on the high plains.
@@CyclingAlaska True, we get a lot 40-60 deg F day whiplash. Some of my SE Alaska emigre friends that tried relocating here found it to be too much.
I do a similar thing with a late 2000's Gary Fisher Utopia. You provide good advice. I still long for a Trek Farley though.
Cool. Good to hear other people are riding like this. Yeah, this is decent setup without spending lots. But sure, a Trek Farley or other fat bike would certainly be nice for all winter riding.
I bet 26” is still the most sold tires. It will be dacades before those bikes are out of circulation.
Interesting you say that. I went into my local bike store a couple years ago to replace the tires on my other mountain bike (also 20+ years old, lol) and asked about their "selection" of 26" tires to which the guy responded by saying there is only one option they carry in 26". Which is odd because I agree with you there must be a ton of these old bikes out there still.
Good to know. Fat bikes are really expensive and I'm not sure how many more bikes my wife will let me get, lol.
Yep. Unfortunately we are limited to our bike storage areas! Gotta build a Bike shed!