Originally Posted by
Tawraste666
Once again, thank you guys so much for your many suggestions. It is nice to see some truly 'novel' ideas coming out.
Hopefully a suitable, available and novel idea will rise to the surface.
To those who are critical of my request:
Yes, my bike is overkill for a daily 8 mile commute.
Yes, in the dark you can't see the aesthetic abomination that is 99% of bicycle lights these days.
Yes, I am being obsessive and a little pedantic.
However, trying to improve my bike brings me a lot of pleasure. It is not just a machine to be utilised, it is something with which I can nurture a sense of pride and enjoyment. Overall, it is a positive thing.
There is a huge amount of positivity here on this forum, and I think that this is something to be encouraged.
Thanks again for your ideas guys, please keep them coming.
You are fortunate that you can commute on a bike like that.
I did not commute to work on a bike but a lot of my co-workers did. In summer there were over a hundred bikes parked outside the building I worked in. Your bike would have lasted less than two weeks before it was stolen. I think the median age of the bikes was about a decade, nobody wanted to ride a nice new bike to work. I am retired, no longer commute. But when I do ride a bike to where I used to work, I use a 1990s mountain bike that I bought at a garage sale for $5. The uglier the better.