The winter bike is dead… long live the winter bike. Before you dash to the shed to check up on your own winter machine (in whatever form it takes), rest assured all is well. Whether your own winter machine is the traditional inexpensive road bike with mudguards (fenders if you like), or a gravel steed, or anything in-between, it remains as valid as it ever did.
But over the past six or seven years winter bikes, along with the entire landscape of cycling, have changed. Traditionally – by which I mean up to around 10 years ago – if you had a dedicated winter bike it was generally used for training during the kind of weather that'd eventually ruin your 'best' road machine, the one you may well also have used for racing.
