Originally Posted by
DiabloScott
This is one of my favorite BF threads... commuter bikes are really where you can let your personality and creativity show through.
Mine too. Form and function gather together!
Originally Posted by
Frankenbike77
This is my patchwork commuter. Got a free comfort hybrid bike from friend, who hadn't used it in over 10 years.
Replaced riser bars with bullhorns with MTB dimensions, jury-rigged grip shifters to work on the bar-ends. Swapped our 38s for 28s, and replaced chainring and cassette to get 52t x 11t vs the stock 48t by 14t
It's ugly, but I like it!
Ugly is great. This is called a sleeper bike. Looks like crap, rides like glory. (Right?) I like how you managed to put flat bar shifters on a bar that is more like a drop bar. I happen to like bars that jut forward like that.
I once had a commuter bike that rode like a dream and looked dorky. Once a teenager had the nerve to yell out at me, "Cheap bike!" I was so proud to have fooled him.