Originally Posted by
cyccommute
You don't have to do it everyday. I wouldn't wash my bike at home every day. That's just asking for things to be frozen when you go out to ride it tomorrow. I probably wouldn't wash it every week, either.
After spending a few hundred dollars two years in a row replacing the bottom bracket and then the crank, my bike shop told me to clean my bike of the salt after every winter ride. That's the fat bike I bought new. But my other bike is a beater that I ride when the snow isn't that deep and I have never cleaned it.