Originally Posted by Sixty Fiver

"Looks like a blast to ride in the winter! Thats all that matters."

She is all of that...

She's a 1987 Kuwahara Cascade touring mtb with a quad butted and lugged Ishiwata frame... she came to me as a gearie, spent a winter as an SS, and for this year (and forever) she will be a fixed gear.

I weighed her with all my kit and the scale read 42 pounds and that was without having the thermos full of chai...which is something a bike needs when it's -20 C and the roads are covered in ice and snow.

104 studs in th front tire also help.

It runs a 38 (Biopace) with 175 mm cranks for maximum torque and has a 16 tooth rear cog to give it a fairly low gearing but still high enough to keep me from spinning out and keep up a decent speed on the road.