It's been about a year since I bought my Kona Smoke and rediscovered biking after a decade-long hiatus. Thought after my last post I might do an update. One year, two cities and no idea how many kilometres later:





I used to have two MEC Turtle blinkies and a Planet Bike 5-LED headlight, but they got stolen. Managed to find these 9-LED lights at a dollar store though (actually 4$ each):



I also had my Planet Bike Micromite tire pump stolen, but at least the bike itself never disappeared. Still have a Victoria Police "This could be a bait bike" sticker even though I'm in Vancouver now, maybe it still has some deterrent effect (maybe because the bait car programme is so high profile in Vancouver):



For some reason the bike came with these weird fender mounts -



- that make regular racks not fit, so I just use this seat post one instead:



Overall I've been pretty happy with the Kona Smoke. Sure it's not as fast and is heavier than more hard-core commuters, and even though it's black it hasn't the style points of those Dutch bikes, and I really wish it had a chainguard, or at least a chainring thingy to keep pants from catching, but it gets me where I'm going. From the LBS - free oil and air! -



- to the airport (why don't airports have bike racks?! People really look at you weird when you walk in with a bike, and even more weird when you ask them for a bike rack) -



- to the country -



- and back to town -



- it gets the job done.