My favorite one too. Pretty neat. Is there a name for these types of bikes? Also, some of them have some pretty steeply angled seats. Do you sit on them, or just stand on the pedals the whole time?

Hi all! I'm a half commuter / half short range tourist, so here's my bike! It's a Trek Lane. I've upgraded the rear rack to a Topeak MTX, bought a U-lock, added bottle holders, Mrrcycle Mirror (Best thing ever), Blaze headlight, and Turbosuper Flash. Also got Spokelits, which RULE!

Might upgrade the pedals to something with straps soon.

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What color Spokelits did you get? I have red right now, but I think I want to switch to amber. I have amber See-ums (by the same company) on my roadbike, and they seem to work great.

I got a pair of green ones, in the front, and one in the back wheel. In the end, I have a flash white front light, flash red rear light, and two green flashers. It makes me look like a UFO, but that's ok. Enough to be more then visible, without being overly tacky.

My sister in law is moving from Washington State to Lincoln and staying with us till she gets settled and I think she is selling her Schwinn Frontier in Washington and will need a commuter once we bring her back on the tail end of our vacation. Here is a 1991 Trek 800 I have had sitting around waiting to be redone and its going to be her likely transportation for the next few months.

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I've enjoyed this thread so much that I've decided to stop lurking and submit my own humble contributions. This is my main commuter, a Specialized Crossroads Sport that I found on a garbage heap three years ago. It had a trashed rear wheel, flat tires, a huge gel saddle on a squishy seat post and an equally squishy thing on the stem. I knew nothing about bikes, had been unhappily commuting the previous year on an older road bike and thought this one would be a more comfortable ride. The changes: drop bars, new seat post and saddle, a heavy duty rack, fenders and (added later) clipless pedals. My commute is mostly flat, so I have it set up 1 x 7, with a bar end shifter. Oh, and the stem. I have no idea what the hell that is. Like I said, I knew nothing of bikes, so brought it to a local guy and said, "Make it happen." He did, and I've put about 7,000 miles on this bike since then. I ride it everywhere.

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My other commuter is the older road bike I'd started out on. It's a Rampar R-one, and has seen better days. It's old, it's beat up and kind of clunky, and once I started riding the Crossroads, it sat. There was just something about it that I didn't like, either the posture it put me in, or the way it handled, I don't know. This winter I decided to pull it out and see if perhaps my mind had changed. Nope, still disliked it. I'd wanted to try a single speed for a while, and since I didn't like the bike as it was, and no one would gasp in horror and dismay if I screwed it up beyond saving, I went to work on it. The changes were pretty basic: I'd already replaced steel rims with alloy, used a 16 tooth ring from the existing freewheel, new cranks and a 40 tooth ring up front, fenders, a Brooks B17 and to complete the transformation, I flipped and chopped the bars. And now I love it. It's my grocery getter, my zip across town for fun bike, and my commuter for those occasions when I have to stop somewhere after work (hence the U lock). I'm going to replace the brake levers with some bar end levers (and put in new cable/housing) in the near future, but for now I'm just enjoying the hell out of it.

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Bike has a little over 1000miles on it now, have it setup perfectly(aside for some fenders possibly), excuse the dirtyness lol
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Thats such a clean simple bike. I might have to end up with one of those someday.

The latest incarnation of my Salsa Vaya3, now with Retroshift.

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Dear previous poster,

Wow.

Sincerely,
Nick

Ditto. That is a seriously lovely bike, AlmostGreenGuy.

Here is my MASI speacial CX 2012 in commuter bicycle theme

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Thanks guys. Some people find the Vaya to be terribly ugly, but she's gorgeous in my eyes. She has a functional kind of beauty about her, that I find to be very attractive. Kind of like falling in love with the school tom boy instead of the skinny model type.

She's a wickedly comfortable ride too. More upright than your average road bike or cross bike, but a more aggressive riding position than a mountain bike or hybrid. The steel frame really absorbs the bumps and potholes.

Wow. That may have been slightly too many photos, but that Masi's one seriously useful-looking bike. What front rack is that?

That many racks is a tad overkill lol, I could not imagine that fully loaded

I took the plunge a few weeks ago and ordered a bike from Bikes Direct, because I wanted to take the commuter stuff off of my Tempo and use it for weekend fun and fastness. I needed a bike with racks, fenders, and was cheap enough that I wouldn't be ruined financially if it was stolen or wrecked. So I chose the Windsor Kensington 8 - Shimano Nexus 8 speed internal hub, came with front and back racks, fenders, chain guard (though it's shaped oddly and the crank arm hit it until I remounted it to the inside of the frame.) It came with crappy tires, so I replaced them with Schwalbe Marathon pluses, added rim tape, a retro-look Zefal bottle cage, and thanks to the helpful Commuting forum members, mounted a rear blinky with P-clamps. I've also put Spoke-Lits on the wheels, and mounted a headlight to the front rack with an old inner tube.

I took it out for a spin today to the store to pick up some shampoo - pretty heavy as compared to my Tempo, but once it gets going it just glides over the pavement, and I feel like the pedals are almost turning themselves. The main road has quite a few bumps and places where chipseal side roads intersect with it. On my Tempo I have to get out of the saddle over those parts, on the Kensington I barely noticed them. Oh, and the pedals are wide enough that I can wear my Danskos on it, a big plus.

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Nice bike!

You might want to get a Dynamo hub front wheel and it'll be complete. :)

based on building materials, license plate size and date format? where are you?

thailland? SE asia?

Dynamo is definitely on the wishlist for this bike, but I'll probably be outfitting it with some nice chrome racks, pedals, and Ortlieb panniers first. (I do have a Banjo Bros Trunk bag on its way to me right now, though.)

My guess would be Changmai in northern Thailand. Until I saw your post I never looked beyond the bike.

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that's what it looks like to me. the grooved concrete "driveway", the color of the roofing tiles and parallel concrete blocks in the adjacent building suggest Thailand. also, the license plate dimensions and the model of car (DAEWOO?) suggest Thailand. not sure how to guess it's Changmai though (vegetation)? however, it definitely doesn't look like Bangkok.

just my .02€

Front rack is Vincita.

I'm in thailand. :)