My wife always says that she wants a fast rolling bike, which I think mean bigger wheels and skinnier tires than the 26" wheeled city cruiser she has now. She is very pregnant now and will be in recovery mode here in a couple months so I took the whole get on and get off easily thing to heart this time.

I found a roughed up Mongoose Dynametric 325 Hybrid for a song, with a mish mash of components from a former used bike dealer. The components I could care less about, as I was going to grab from the primo bin this time. The frame 4130 Cromoly and has the same geometry as modern Trek FX series bikes.

Before:


In Process, pictures as of yesterday, post powder coating and some build up:

Velo Orange headset, stem adapter, and seat post, original rear brake pulley, 32 hole 105 hubs laced to Mavic Open Sport rims, Panaracer UrbanMax Tires 700x32c, Origin 8 compact crank...so far