The just keep making Townies look cooler and cooler.

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New Kid On The Block
 

Hello from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Here's my profile. I commute 2 miles to work and back year round. It got really cold in the Prairies this year. We had a windchill factor at about -45 degrees celsius. At that temperature I was riding on one gear. That's okay, I love it. I bought this bag called a HybridBackpack from hybridbackpack.com that allowed me to carry my backpack over the bike rack instead of using a pannier or side pack. I love it. The contraption distributes the weight evenly over the bike rack and it was easy to assemble after a few rides. Good-bye sore back and sweaty back.

Hope everyone has a good commute.

Ter

Ter, you are one tough cyclist! What a planet this is. The Floridians complain when it hits 50F (10C), we New Jerseyans complain when it hits 20F (-7C), and you don't complain about anything. :roflmao:

Just built up this mid 80's Bianchi Squadra with Campy 10 speed. I'll commute on it when I don't have to bring my laptop...or clothes.

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I might even straighten the seat out before I ride it!

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Hola, going to start commuting to...well where ever. Getting laid off as of May 6th, so I decided to start riding my bikes more and eliminating car expenses as I can. I recently rebuilt my old Trek 7300 and just need to put a rack on the back and put my fenders back on. Here is a quick shot of it.

Replaced all the original low end components using all Shimano LX gear except the derailleurs, they are XT. Thinking about getting some Velocity Deep V rims and lacing with the LX hubs on the Mavic A119 wheels I'm currently using. They are fairly nice wheels, but they are a bear to keep true and have a lot of flex. I have almost 2k on my road bike Deep V's and not had a lick of issues with them.

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I am always happy to see more loons here... I am just a little left of you and we did not have nearly as bad a winter here as the rest of the prairies.

It looks like most of the snow will be gone in a week if the forecast for warmer weather holds and I plan to be wearing shorts by mid week... there will be much rding gooing on although it won't be commuting in the accepted sense.

I have been working on The Girl's new bike(s)... I have some retro Kool Stops for her '74 R20 and am looking for some new brakes to further improve things as the bike is going home with her and it's much wetter on the coast.

The initial road tests have been good and the bike is pretty much mint... it still has it's factory tyres which are in very good shape but they will be getting replaced with some 1.5 Marathons. We did not want to change too much on this bike but the new wheels and soon to be installed brakes are a definite improvement.

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Bridgestone Utility Bicycle
 

I got interested with this bicycle because of its heavy duty stands. I had it newly painted and the rims polished and mounted new National White Side Tires. The bicycle has heavy duty center stand and by tomorrow I'll be installing the Heavy Duty Side Stand along withe the center stand. By next week the Heavy Duty Carrier will be installed.
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Heavy Duty Center Stand
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Holy crap that's a crazy stand.

Sancycles, you've posted a lot of your projects. How are they selling lately? I love your pictures and stories!

Sixty fiver, I had a Raleigh Twenty as a project bike in 1980. Inspired by John S Allen, I imitated his somewhat. I built wheels with alloy rims and a Sturmey Archer 5-speed hub. I put on drop bars and BMX tires. 36 spoke, 20 inch wheels! I was able to go downhill faster on gravel than cars were! But in the end, the bike still didn't ride well, sorry to say. Heavy and flexy.

jaxgtr, your wheels go out of true because your spokes are too loose. Your wheels should not go out of true. Also, be sure your tire pressure is up there, but mostly, it's a spoke tension deficiency.

And the Brooks is installed. Is it as expected? I got the B72 I ordered, but painting the bike(s) so not tested yet.

My New Trucker
 

Picked up my new Surly Long Haul Trucker from Sacramento yesterday. I've rode 36.58 miles so far. Still waiting on all the bags (Carradice Long Flap, Arkel Big Bar handlebar bag (blue), and Ortlieb front and rear panniers with outer pockets).

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I'm not done coating her handlebars...and cross posted from the utility...


Batavus Old Dutch traditional omafiet.
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Everything is mostly stock except for the grips and the brooks.

It's considered a woman's frame but I'm comfortable enough to sport her, and I love look and the easy dismounts of loop frames.

Yea, I thought so too. I had them checked by a solid wheel builder I know and he told me that the rims are really soft and were even hard for him to get proper tension and trueness. They stay true about 400-600 miles, so I had them re-spoked with 14g straight gauge as a last ditch attempt to see if it would help, but in the end, they still flex a lot. I get very little if any flex from my Deep V's on my CAAD9 and I am a big boy at 287 and outside of the initial re-check at 400 miles, they have caused me no issues in the last 1500 miles. So in the end, I think a better level rim will work better.

Also, counterintuitively, smaller gauge spokes help and even make a rim stronger.

What do you mean the rim flexes? What kind of rim is it?

They are Mavic A119 rims. I probably should have gone with the A319 at a minimum.

I still say you can make them more reliable by tightening the spokes, whatever the rims are.

So here is a bike I just renovated. I got it at a police auction. I bought some parts for it and used some parts I had in my spares bin and on other bikes. I'm giving it to a local woman who is a recovering alcoholic and lost custody of her teenage son. She's getting back on her feet with an apartment and a job. She has no car, and I don't know if she has a license.

When I'm done with this, I'll be giving another fixer-upper bike to another recovering alcoholic woman. I guess this is my new hobby.

Very cool on the donation.

It's pretty awesome to do things like this...

Lately I've been in the habit of fixing up free craigslist bikes, riding them around town until I spot a homeless person/transient to give the bike to.

Makes ya feel all warm and fuzzy, or maybe that's the IPA.

Here is my trusty steed, my 1995 Specialized Stumpjumper FS.

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My trusty sure-footed commuter
 

Nokian Hakkapeliitta's 106 carbide studs per tire make winter riding much more enjoyable!

But winter takes its toll. I switched to stainless cables.

It`s a beautiful frame- modern build, it looks like?

Yup, built within the last 6 months, I'm assuming. They are still producing these at a massive scale in the Netherlands.

True to a certain extent, but some rims design and the material used just makes them inherently flexier, especially under a strong or heavier rider. For example most low-end Alex rims I've come across (like Alex DA22) are "soft", and go out of true by a big amount just from stress relieving the spokes...

Deep V rims on the other hand are extremely rigid thanks to the amount of material and the design. I've got a stock pair on my 09 Paddy Wagon which gets a fair amount of abuse jumping/dropping off curbs and carrying 20kg loads in my panniers, yet both wheels are only out of true by about 2mm after months of use. :)

My new commuter! Columbia Tourist V. I bought it off of craigslist for $80.00 and I have no idea what year it is. She has what looks to be an Eagle 2 deraillieur. Tires and cables appear sound but it's time for fresh cables and new inner tubes just to be safe. She even has an old license plate. I'll keep it on 'cause it adds class. I love the fenders, they have an almost Indian Chief look to them. I ran out of blinkies so I need to run to walmart for more lights. Bell came out with a real good 3 led headlight and I like their vintage looking blinkies.
Ernest

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