Howdy.

I put this up in the ss forum too, because it's a singlespeed, but this is also my new commuting bike:




I haven't been riding hardly at all for the last 5 years or so, mostly due to where I was living (nowhere to ride + many, many unlicensed drivers + you can't imagine how bad those people drive), but I moved recently and it's real close to work, the traffic isn't a hellish nightmare, and I've got the biking bug again.

So, wanting a singlespeed real bad and something simple and reliable for commuting, I came up with the above bike. The frame (and cranks and brakes) I got used, the wheels are used, everything else is mostly new. The bar is a Soma "Arc", and it's very, very cool. The photos are crap but basically the bar is, well, an arc, and hanging onto the ends is great for standing up on the pedals or clilmbing, and further in is a nice spot when you're cruising along fast. Besides the Jones H-bar, which costs $100, I think this is my dream handlebar.

I've got a rear rack I'm going to paint flat black and add to it, and bolt-on skewers, but that's it for now. I started out thinking I was going to make a cheap, ugly thing that no one would glance at, but I got real into it and what I've ended up with is sort of a gaudy accident that I think is way cool.