one of the first bikes i started commuting on was an old raleigh hard tail. over the years i made some commuting specific mods to it:

- ditched the suspension fork for a rigid one
- swapped out old wheel set and wide tires for narrow slicks and a lighter wheel set
- upsized the drive train for pavement riding (from a 42-34-24 chainring to a 48-38-28)
- swapped out flat bar for a more aerodynamic bullhorn set-up with reverse pulls



it started out like this:








and ended up like this (shown below with wider studded tires for winter), before it was destroyed in a collision with a bus: