bike 2
This is my other bike, I use it mostly to pull the loaded trailer home (my other bike, I can pull it up the hill home empty, but not so much full of kids, groceries, or both; today I'm expecting to be pulling the trailer home w/ 2 kids and 2 salmon; glad temp is back down to double digits).
This came out of a dumpster in Watertown MA. I paid to ship it to WA, added rack, fenders, new tires (1.5" inverted tread rather than 2" knobbies) and then I swapped out the old pedals for a set of spd/plain platforms I had lying around. And away it goes.
You can't see in the crappy cell phone pic that the front fender stays are attached to the fork w/ copper wire. At some point I'd like to put in a whatever you call it fixed fork, no suspension, if only to get eyelets to finally screw the stays down to. I'd save the susp fork, just like I saved the 2" knobbies, but who knows if it would ever see daylight again. I'm stalled on replacing the fork just 'cause I don't know what I would find if I start taking it apart; threaded, threadless, all that stuff, I don't know anything about it.