You should carry a lightsaber.

That XCheck is beautiful!

Please, tell us more about the moustache set up. Which bars and what stem size/brand did you go with?

I am seriously considering moustache bars on my Cross Check.

This was my over 20 year old Nashbar in NYC commuter mode - the frame snapped on the seat tube near the bottom bracket last autumn. Very unusual place for the frame to fail....

I still use the Tailwind front panniers. I think they stopped making them in 1986 or so.

I've seen failures there twice. I don't think it's so unusual. When you think about how heavily the frame is built there, you realize it's probably because that's where a lot of the stress is.

Right now, I'm commuting on a 38-year-old bike. It's lovely. It's a 1971 Raleigh Super Course.

Your bike (and pictures) of your bike are beautiful, metricoclock.

Here's my new folding bike. I wanted to see what a cheap steel frame folding bike was like, and this is the cheapest one I found ($0.99 on ebay, plus $80 shipping). Heavily modified, of course: Shimano Nexus hubs with roller brakes; front hub has a dynamo built in, rear is an internally geared 4-speed. Both rims are completely wrapped in reflective tape --you can get away with that if you have hub brakes!. Reflector on rear fender has been converted to a light (there's a very bright LED in there); headlight is home made from an old steam regulator from a radiator. Wires run under the fenders. It weighs a ton, which doesn't seem to matter much. It's got about 200 miles on it by now.

rhm, that's interesting! What's it like to ride? And how often do you ride it?

Ha! Isn't that always the case with eBay.

Anyhow, nice looking bike. Very eye catching.

Classy.

Here's a photo of my new commuter bike, a Bob Jackson World Tour. It's got a mix of components: -- Shimano DA/Ult shifters, derailleurs, brakes, hubs
-- Campy Centaur compact crank, 34x50
-- Mavic Open pro wheels w/ Michelin Pro2Race tires, 700x25
-- Fizik saddle with Thomson post
-- Ritchey handlebar with Nitto Deluxe stem, King headset
-- Carradice Barley seatbag and rear rack, Nitto front rack
-- Planet Bike Cascadia fenders
-- Fenix L2D headlight and Dinotte 140 tail-light

More photos at this page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/33353398@N05/

Here's my winter beater. I picked it up for $50 with a lady's bike thrown in. I stole the fenders off the lady's bike and I'm hoping the rigid fork from the lady's bike will fit. I won't find out until i switch back to the road bike sometime in May.

There's enough "Jamis Aurora" Stickers on the frame to lead me to believe that the frame is a Jamis Aurora.

I put the Schwalbe Snow studs on front and back. So far i'm pretty impressed but i have no point of reference having never ridden in winter before. I see all kinds of surfaces on my commute though.

1) Nice setup.

2) I nearly spewed coffee on my computer screen when I read that...

It rides okay. I don't like the Nexus Inter-4 hub much; I'm used to a Sturmey Archer XRF8, which has more tightly spaced gears and feels more efficient. I like the long wheel base-- two or three inches longer than my Downtube Mini. I've been riding it every day for over two weeks.

For more detail, please see the thread I started on this bike in the folders forum:

Here is mine:

Nope Osan this trip. Kunsan five years ago. Osan cycling is much better in my opinion.

benbammens,
That's beautiful.

Thanx, I really like it now too.
Recently changed the original threaded steel fork to a threadless carbon one, the old RX100 brakes with Ultegra brakes an the RX100-cranks to Alfine cranks. In the summer when I don't need the light anymore the front wheel also will be Mavic Aksium. It should be under 11kgs (24lbs) than.

Very nice, it looks efficient.

Wow, benbammens. What kind of rims do you have, and how many spokes on each wheel? It seems you've made a good compromise between lightness and reliability. I don't like the recent trends of too-few spokes and stupid spoking patterns, e.g. radial.

The front wheel is a dynohub (Shimano DH-3N80) laced to a Rigida DP18 rim (36 spokes). I will only use this in the winter when I need light (built it myself)
The rear-wheel is a Mavic Aksium wheel 24 bladed spokes. In a few weeks I will replace the front weel with the Aksium to (20 bladed spokes).
I'm gonna use the Aksiums just because I have a set of them lying around

Just finished cleaning up this old Ross Mt St Helen's. Not much to look at but a fun ride and perfect for my commute to school/hospital (about a mile), especially when it's nasty out. Just need to add some fenders and slick tires. Eventually I'll change the fork (have one waiting for a new headset) so I can get a different stem and handlebars on there as the neon green is a little much for me.

Not enough gears for me, but definitely pretty. Nice job- I bet you love riding it!

That's a smart bike, j. hughes, and I like your fenders and slick tires ideas. I like the rack that sits way far back.

Just finished upgrading my 2008 Kona Jake.



Ultegra STI shifters (couldn't pass up Nashbar's $150 deal, which is what triggered this whole set up upgrades) and Bike Ribbon cork bar tape (not quite sure what I think of it yet):



Ultegra SL rear derailleur and Ultegra 12-27 cassette:



105 triple front derailleur (the Ultegra triple is spec'd for a min. front-middle difference of 12T, so I figured the 105 would give me less hassles with my 50-39-30 Gossamer crankset):



Ultegra Open Pro wheelset:



KoolStop Tectonic brake pads and shorter link cable (to try to get some power out of the Shortys):

benbammens - last year I built my own front rack from scratch, but one day on a long fast ride I was thinking the perfect shape for a front would be a "football" and your back rack is so similar - what is it and where did you get it**********?