I've never posted pics before, so lets see how this goes. Sorry in advance if these are to big, I re-read the how-to's.


My bike: 2010 Kona ***** Inc. with a few swaped parts. I just changed out the stock 160mm avid disc rotor for a 203mm downhill. Yea it might be overkill, but looks pretty cool. The shock drop bar has been changed out for the WTB dirt drop bar. It's comfortable and I like the wider grip position. The original Selle-Italia saddle was kinda junky so I started using my old WTB Laser again.

I've been rinding this since December and have about 800 miles on it plus a 108 mile "century" ride from Long Beach to San Diego. I ride about 8 miles daily, sometimes more.

The ***** seems to come up a lot on "possible commuter lists", but I haven't seen too many on the forum. I thought it would be a good idea to post my own. I ride in Long Beach, CA. The goal with this bike was to create something fun and safe to ride on the busy streets of the city which consists of quick stops, fast sprints and generally trying say off cars and out from under buses.

On a side note, I feel that commuting is most often a solitary endevour. This forum/thread is great because it gives us all an opportunity to check each others bikes, which all seem to be very personalised machines.