dat@hpcnoe.UUCP (dat) (10/16/84)
Somewhat of a silly question, but I just moved from California to Colorado and it's already snowing (4" !!!) and I am worried that my bicycle might be damaged by the cold weather...is there anything that I should do to it to allow it to survive the sub-zero temperatures???? One thought I have had is that the chain lube might freeze and damage the chain...another is that the rubber tires might not appreciate being frozen... Anyone have any comments? Thanks! Dave Taylor Hewlett-Packard Corp. Fort Collins CO in the snow...
reid@Glacier.ARPA (10/26/84)
> Somewhat of a silly question, but I just moved from California > to Colorado and it's already snowing (4" !!!) and I am worried that my > bicycle might be damaged by the cold weather...is there anything that > I should do to it to allow it to survive the sub-zero temperatures???? > Your bike can probably take the sub-zero temperatures better than you can. Until I moved to California in 1980 from Pennsylvania, I rode my bikes in all sorts of horrid cold frozen weather. My wife tended to leave her bike in the (unheated) garage until spring. The salt that they put on the roads out there destroys bikes the same way it destroys cars, but the cold doesn't hurt it at all.