Originally Posted by
Smaug1
noglider your bike setup, how is the lock prevented from bouncing out of the basket? I'm thinking you could run the shackle around your seatpost or seat tube with the lock bar securing it to the basket. I like the lugged frame and springy steel fork. I bet it's a nice ride. I look at modern steel bikes and I'm sure they saved some weight and gained some vibration damping by going to a carbon fork, but the ride is almost certainly better with steel, shaped like yours.
Is that a dynamo hub I see out front?
My (main) commuter bike is a 1974 Raleigh International, so it's butted Reynolds 531. The fork rake is long, and I suppose that makes it feel springy.
Modern steel frames might be slightly heavier than old ones. They need reinforcements for disc brakes. Modern steel forks are definitely heavier than old ones. This fork is slightly more than HALF the weight on the Surly Cross Check I had a few years ago. Liability! Maybe the extra strength is justified. But the bike with all of its bolted-on accessories is about 30 pounds so it doesn't feel light. As I mentioned recently, I'm crazy with tires so I have Continental GP 5000 tires on it. Not practical, but I just want them.
I've blogged the building and renovations of the bike in this thread:
noglider's Raleigh International Frankenbike
I
don't suggest you read it all.
The lock doesn't bounce out because I don't hit the kind of bumps that would cause it. Or I could say because it's heavy enough to bounce only a little. It's the Kryptonite New York model, weighing around 3 pounds.
Yes, it's a dynamo hub. The taillight connection from it failed long ago, and I haven't had the energy to fix it, so I'm using a battery powered blinky taillight and the dynamo (steady) headlight. It's a good setup for me.