Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site Glacier.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!decwrl!CSL-Vax!Glacier!reid From: reid@Glacier.ARPA Newsgroups: net.bicycle Subject: Re: freezing bicycles for storage... Message-ID: <762@Glacier.ARPA> Date: Fri, 26-Oct-84 00:50:07 EDT Article-I.D.: Glacier.762 Posted: Fri Oct 26 00:50:07 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 22-Oct-84 06:48:37 EDT References: <7900002@hpcnoe.UUCP> Organization: Stanford University Lines: 11 > 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.