Digging all the different bars up front. I sometimes do long rides on a very similar bike and suffer from numb and painful hands, a setup like that looks a lot more comfortable.

I am a bad influence...

Decided to sell my hybrid today and have already listed it for sale as I don't need two commuter / tourers and the lower drop position just isn't working anymore.

Gotta go with the vintage hand built lugged steel here...

Your going to damage my image with such a bad influence LOL

Being the didactic language curmudgeon that I am, I think I'll have a bunch of stickers made that say, "ONE FEWER CAR".

Great-looking build! Congratulations.

Now that's funny!

That's really nice. Tell us more about it. What frame is that?

irclean, I'm glad at least one person liked that. Grammatical errors are like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. I wish it weren't so.

A sure sign of spring... the summer bikes are coming out to play a little.

Well, no new pictures as of now but the winter beater is about to be given away. Too many issues for me to deal with right now. The Summer bike now sports the old winter clincher wheelset with some new Panaracer Pasela TG 28c's. Loving it. Much smoother than the 22c tubulars I was riding on it previously. Selling the Pinarello. Trying to move here shortly and want to slim down and need the cash.

Nearly all my miles are for transportation, so my main bike is set up as a commuter.

It's an early 80's Univega Sport with:

• Mustache bars
• SKS Fenders
• Shimano Nexus dynamo hub
• LED dyno front light (Busch & Muller Lumotec IQ Cyo R Senso Plus)
• LED hybrid dyno rear light (Busch & Muller 4D Toplight Mutli)
• Backup LED front light (1/2 watt Blaze)
• Backup blinky (PB Superflash)
• Rack and bags, of course

Need more reflectors:



Finally, Horrid video of bike lights in a parking lot.

Love that!

Kid-toting season has returned, so I'm rediscovering the luxury of coasting.

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i know its one of those cheapies but i wanted to try a road bike for commuting so i picked me up a dawes so far its not bad took it for a 5 mile ride its a hell of a lot faster than my current bike but i cant
put fenders on it so itll definatly be a summer commuter

Road bikes are awesome for summer commuting

What exactly is it? I see it's a Dawes Lightning, but I can't find it on the website. Is it a 2009 model? Am I seeing Shimano Sora?

its a 2010 model i found it on ebay yeah its got a sora rear derailer the rest of the drive train is kinda cheap but it feels pretty solid i got it today and have rode it 11miles so far it feels more expensive than a 400 bike its also my first bike with a carbon fork i kinda like it takes some of the bump outta the ride i think im gonna get some new cranks and front derailer and a carbon seatpost here in a few months

SKS Raceblades! Not full coverage, but they will work tolerably well.

https://www.rei.com/product/737502

Looks great. What fender/tire combo is that?

here's my rig....80's trek 400

Nice bike!

Picked up a few sets of trekking bars yesterday and decided to fit one set to my Trek 7500 since my back has not been liking the down low position in the drops but need that forward positioning the trekking bars offer.

Took about an hour to set things up and dial things in as I went from friction shifted bar cons to some 1st gen XTR which work really smoothly with all the XT and LX parts on the bike... and they are really nice looking brakes / shifters.



Nice thing about the t bars is how many ways you can set them up.

I wonder if that will end the topic of regarding if that bike is a hybrid now. I would love to see a close up of those friction shifters. Looks great, I am really digging trekking bars, best upgrade I have done so far

Timber - Those XTR (st m900) bits date back to '92 and were the first 8 speed sti group for off road and as they are pretty much new work very well... I am most impressed with the braking action and they are mated to the best cantis ever made... which are also early XTR.





https://members.home.nl/children-of-the-korn/XTR900.htm

I posted in another thread (wrong of course )

Anyhow after 15 years of my mountain bike finally took the plung here in the new beast...

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo...eat=directlink

the commute pursuit.

My noble steed:



1997 (?) GT Legacy, bought second-hand, steel/chromoly frame, rollin' on 700x40s right now (soon to be 700x35s). A heck of a lot of fun to ride!

I love the bar tape on the trek. is it leather?

I'm riding my Windsor Knight on the dry days, the Soho on the wet days. Today was a dry day!

Stock except for Conti Gatorskin 700x25c tires, tool bag wedge, and Topeak Road frame pump.



Stock tires, no pump: