Road salt - help or Hindrance?

[Sev]

The above sounds familiar. Everytime I moved my bike into position to ride out the season and got it prepped to sit in the garage we'd have a warm snap and I'd haul it back out to ride again.

[jfeaz]

Wyoming thankfully doesn't salt. they do throw down a fair bit of sand though. I wish they would use the chemicals that they use in europe.

Colorado unfortunately throws tons of salt on their roads.

I would love to live somewhere with a year round riding season.

We are lucky at the moment and are having a warm spell with ridable weather. but knowing my luck the instant I get plates on my bike we are going to have a blizzard

they definitely use salt in the part of colorado where i live, but i've found it to do more good than harm. it eats away the ice very quicly, making the roads rideable again. i use it in my own driveway too. but i do understand the issue with it rusting the bike. i hose the bike and the bottom of my truck at least once a week. we also have this nice automatic car wash that sprays your undercarriage with giant heavy jets for as long as you want.