Yay! I'm very excited to say that I'll be buying this bike! I've just been lurking for the last few months after deciding on the Swift early this spring, only to look at my finances and decide that I need to wait another year before buying. Unless I could find a good used one, that is ... which I just did.

I'll be converting it to drop bars (already have the parts), and by winter I expect to go for a front drum brake as well. I might try to live with a rear rim brake at least until I wear out the first rim, then convert to a rear drum. Hopefully I'll be able to post my own Swift pr0n in a couple weeks.

Not a lot of color in the silver Swift, and I do like color (my mountain bike is a bright orange with turquoise raindrop paint scheme and yellow-orange bar tape, my current commuter is british racing green with celeste bar tape, and my Madsen cargo bike is turquoise with brown leather saddle and bar tape). Not sure what direction to go: should I go with yellow bar tape to match the little swift logo, or maybe blue or red? Or classic brown (since I have a roll of brown bar tape already lying around, and could yank the brown saddle off the Madsen). Which will look best against all that silver? Leaning towards yellow despite all the grime it shows after a few months, but can't decide yet.

- Dan