My wife would like to know where she can pick up one of those things you have in the cage.

This is a vacuum bottle JSB-500. Nothing else, that I know of, comes close to it. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, the bottle is not available right now in the US. For more info, see the Bicycle Coffee page:

http://www.nordicgroup.us/bikecoff/

chip,
how did you mount that rear rack with those disc brakes?? i've been trying to find one i could mount on my cannondale F600... local bike shop even said i couldn't do it. so... i sold the F600 and now i see this pic. :rolleyes:

did you fabricate something or just tinker with it until it fit??

thanks,

Rich

Your LBS needs to do their homework. The rack on my bike is an Axiom Journey. http://www.rei.com/product/47916976.htm
The Tubus Logo and others also have adapter kits for mounting to disk equipped bikes.
http://www.thetouringstore.com/TUBUS...OGO%20PAGE.htm

My commuter.

Frame and forks are Tange, wheels Halo 48's on Bullseye hubs, nos XC Pro rear mech, nos Suntour Top Pull front, Brooks, TCO post, EA50 stem, old XC Pro fricton shifters, DMR tyres, generic steel omfort bars, cheap RPM cranks, DMR V8 pedals, nos XC Pro front and rear canti's (bought 2 sets to get matching colours), suntour power hangers, nokon for some of the tricky cable lines, Brixton Cycles water bottle.
I know the bike makes no sense, but I like it.

thanks Chip.... sure wish I would have found this before I sold my Cannondale. oh well.

At last I've managed to get a photo of my commuter bike. I've posted pictures of my old Trek Y-50 and Santa Cruz Superlight in the MTB forum.

Here are the details of this bike.

Frame: Handsome Dog Titanium
Forks: Kona Project 2
Wheels: LX hubs on XC717 rims
Crank: LX Hollotech
STI Levers: XTR
Brakes: XTR
Rear Mech: LX
Seatpost: FSA
Bars: Race Face Air Alloy
Stem: Unknown
Saddle: Flite Titanium
Tyres: Tioga City Slickers

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...2/Commuter.jpg

Here it goes..

My first attempt to attach an image to a message posting..

One of my six commuter bike.. this one with trailer.. made with 2 hand trucks welded together.

Pics shows me hauling a LifeCycle 9000 purchased from a local Trift Store.

Note: If the image doesn't come through.. Please help me with instructions on how to do the steps correctly..

Much obliged.
Nick Lee

Looks real good; bombproof.

Chocy, good o see someone with a good supply of old suntour xc, which time has shown to be way more durable and versatile than shimano of the same era. ahh, why did everyone jump on the shimano MTB bandwagon, hindsight is 20/20.

just finished setting up my commuter for the winter.

84 trek 520 frame and fork(reynolds 531)
ballistic Ti stem
Nitto mustache bars
ultegra/600 crankset (165mm)
Mavic 520 hubs-Mavic MA40
Sachs 7 sp
Suntour XCpro rear
Tektro cantilevers
Suntour accushift barcon

here are some bad pics

I was riding a Triax aluminum hardtail because I let two miles of gravel road scare me. Then I had a flat and needed to get to work in a hurry so I braved dragging out the old school 30-year-old Fuji.

I shaved 10 minutes off my commute and I haven't had the mt bike out since.



http://users.cis.net/coldfeet/fujicom.JPG

Well, here is my fully loaded 2005 giant cypress lx, with disc brakes.
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some of the stuff i dressed her with,
a kryptonite new york lock
air zound air horn thing
blackburn mini pump
saddle bag, which house my ipod, which that white line in plug goes to from the radio
oh, and the radio, a phillips shoqbox mini stereo, held in by rubber bands
cateye astrale 8 computer with cadence
blackburn 4 pot led headlight
sefras taillight
oh, it has fenders, but there in the tub getting washed.
total weight, around 50 something pounds
total cost, under 300 bucks, but then again the bike was only one hundred bucks.

I only commute to work on casual Fridays.

Mine is a Giant Halfway RS 2005 with a SRAM Dual Drive rear hub. All I need to make it perfect is a nice light system and a nice rear rack+panniers.

http://216.77.188.54/coDataImages/p/...005(Large).JPG


Rafael Guerra

I recently finished my Frankenbike beater for use as a badweather commuter/campus runabout. I started with an old rusty Rampar R-Two frame that I got in trade and a Sears 503.1 three-speed hub (license built Sturmey-Archer AW, only better!) that came off of the old Sears three-speed I bought back in September.

I built the hub into a 27-inch wheel with an El Cheapo Nashbar rim and DT Swiss spokes and slapped a 22-tooth 3/32" cog on it. I filed out the fork end dropouts and spread the fork blades to fit the 100mm QR front wheel from my nice bike. Then I replaced the drop bars with a 24" flatbar chopped to 20", put the old derailer back on the bike so I could shift the front chainrings, and voila! Hybrid 33% gear steps 6-speed goodness! Total cost? About $90, mostly for the wheel and new cables (S-A cables are NOT cheap!).

In the photos: profile view of the bike, closeup of the unconventional cable touring around the seat cluster, the head-on view, the hub, the derailer, the chainrings.

Is that the ultra-wide $9.95 special?

I bought a pair too. I didn't realize how w-i-d-e they were. Oh well, they ended up lightening up the wife's old Continental.

Compares favorably with what gets accomplished in China using bicycles!

Here is my primary short distance commuter bike (one of six on duty depending on the task at hand).

Marin Muirwood
Blackburn MTB front rack -- for my radio.
Topeak Rear Rack with spring holder.
"Kirkland" panniers -- classic -- anybody remember them?

Cockpit:
Nashbar bow tie handbar and computer.
Radio Shack Radio Caddie for my Yaesu 2M radio
Bell / Motocycle Mirror
2 Cateye EL-200 for to-be-seen light.
2 - Nite-Hawk 12v 12w lamp assembly with cateye 533-8730 spacer mounted on my front Blackburn rack.

Last pic show how one can screw the 533-8730 space onto the flast surface of the front rack.. and attach a PVC pipe on the cateye handlebar mount. Once attached you can add as many handlebar brackets depending on the length of the PVC pipe.. In my case.. I have two additional cateye handbar mounts on the 4" PVC pipe to accomodate the two Nite-Hawk lamps brackets that I have replaced with 533-8730 spacer. Total of 4 cateye handlebar mounts on the bike to accomodate many combinations of lights depending on riding time.

Much obliged.
Nick Lee
car-free since January 2000
member of the 5 digit club (10,000 bicycle miles per year every year since)

Yep! It's not that wide, though, unless you're used to 700C road-racing type rims. 27-inch rims seem to come in two sizes, mostly - 1 1/8" and 1 1/4". The Nashbar is the latter, same size as the rims that came on my 1986 touring bike. My complaint about the rim isn't the width, but the massive, ugly seam at the joint! But for ten bucks, what do you want? You get what you pay for, I suppose.

(And I didn't buy a pair, just the one. If I ever need a new front, I'll buy a complete wheel).

on-one il pompino frame, mish mash of parts to suit. sturmey-archer 8 speed rear internal hub.

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/IMG_0003.jpg

Was set up fixed gear, but as I'm doing more grocery runs, the gears were a bit more appealing. Got another road bike setup fixed gear for when wanting to ride unencumbered. :)

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/IMG_0002.jpg

Howdy.

I put this up in the ss forum too, because it's a singlespeed, but this is also my new commuting bike:


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I haven't been riding hardly at all for the last 5 years or so, mostly due to where I was living (nowhere to ride + many, many unlicensed drivers + you can't imagine how bad those people drive), but I moved recently and it's real close to work, the traffic isn't a hellish nightmare, and I've got the biking bug again.

So, wanting a singlespeed real bad and something simple and reliable for commuting, I came up with the above bike. The frame (and cranks and brakes) I got used, the wheels are used, everything else is mostly new. The bar is a Soma "Arc", and it's very, very cool. The photos are crap but basically the bar is, well, an arc, and hanging onto the ends is great for standing up on the pedals or clilmbing, and further in is a nice spot when you're cruising along fast. Besides the Jones H-bar, which costs $100, I think this is my dream handlebar.

I've got a rear rack I'm going to paint flat black and add to it, and bolt-on skewers, but that's it for now. I started out thinking I was going to make a cheap, ugly thing that no one would glance at, but I got real into it and what I've ended up with is sort of a gaudy accident that I think is way cool.

I'm curious where you came up with the front chain guard..

I thought every day was a casual workday in Orlando. ;)

This has been complicated for me, because my crankset leaves very little space between the crank and the outer large ring. One portion of the setup is the commonly available Chain Disk:

http://www.koolstop.com/Accessories/

From top, the guard comes in two pieces designed to work with this kind of disk protector:

http://www3.big.or.jp/~number-1/No.1_Chainguard2.html
http://www.ogk.co.jp/amenity/MTBgoods/MG-001-10.html

Front part No. is MG-10 and rear MG-001, made by OGK, ~$10 each piece in Japan, a souvenir for me from a trip. I would be now eager to get more of those. Finally, the gap between the pieces is closed by a velcro strap, to prevent the leg getting caught in the gap, while leaving an access to the derailleur in case it were needed.

Okay. I also will post a picture or two of my commuter.