Yeah! originallly came Titanium color, and painted them using spray car paint, unfortunately I couldn't find the same red candy color of the bike, so that was the closest I got.
Corsaire

Looks the business, Corsaire. Very red!

I'm in the market soon to replace my old commuter, and the Volpe is high on the list of potential rides. How long is your commute? How do you find the stock gearing and component set, particlarly wheelset? Does the flash flag seem to help a lot? I always run a blinky on the rear, day and night, and find it encourages drivers to give me a lot more space on the road - I imagine the flag helps to achieve the same.

Now I want a red bike. :cry:

Black as the ace of spades....

My commute is 11.5 miles each way, hilly course: the first one being 20-25 degrees uphill and about block and a half long. I love the Tiagra triple gearing, is smooth and serves the hilly course very well. The wheelset is bombproof so far, given that sometimes I practically disappear inside some potholes in my route (winter's leftovers). I've found the flash flag make drivers take a more cautious approach when passing me on the left, and since it's connected to a spring it really wiggles calling the attention of most drivers.
Corsaire

Nasty quality pictures - but that's what you get when you try to do stills from a video camera... I have no digital camera nor does the office, all we have are video - so its limited to 720/640x480 @ 72 dpi... but for now... my newly overhauled commuter:

http://www.the-wild.net/puch/8.jpg

more images: http://www.the-wild.net/puch

Its an old Puch frame with a Sachs 3 spd. Saddle needs to come up a bit more I think - first ride was this morning and the left bolt was tight enough so the tire started to rub... fixed it as soon as I got to the office.

Here's a link to a photo of mine after our morning tour today.
http://www.gacnw.com/images/LemondProfileWeb.jpg

Chez
Are those Rolf Vector rims? I've got blue RV's on my Trek2200 that are always true inspite of the Seattle pot-holes.

The rear is a Rolf Vector Comp that I bought from a guy that had never ridden on it (my originals wore through the sidewalls from all the rain/grit). He didn't have the front any longer, and evidently you can't get red from Trek anymore. After looking on eBay for awhile, I gave up and decided I could just build my own using a Velocity DeepV and the Rolf hub. A radial lace uses the same spoke length (and the LBS had plenty of the flat DT spokes used in the original Rolf setup) since the rim dimensions are nearly identical.

Unfortunately, the red color is slightly different between the two. . . but the front more closely matches the bike, so I may just build a new rear with a Velocity rim and maybe an American Classic hub.

Oh, and I now use Mavic Open Pros on Ultegra hubs during the winter to save the wear on my "pretty" wheels.

This is my newest ride, "Ruby Sojourner" is a 2003 Col de La Madaleine by Terry, 16 inch frame, 24X13/8 inch front, 700C rear, everything stock except for the Planet Bike fenders, RealLite tail light, 9V horn, and CatEye 5 LED opticube. She is my daylight savings time, drier day ride. My only complaint is that I can't fit a rack trunk on because my seat is too close to the rack.

My workhorse ride, Flora is a '99 Terry with two 24inch wheels, NiteHawk Prowler head lamp, back up cateye on the front fork, reflecter riveted to flap of rack trunk, RealLite on trunk, Cateye tail light on rack. In short, fully Fredded, everything to inspire a true roader to race by as fast as possible to avoid looking at her. I love her, she is me, I am her.

here is my mountain bike which was used to commute 28 km round trip everyday. Another one is my newly acquire road bike. MTB price is USD 45 and road one is USD 65. Mountain bike has been used for a month.

Great idea about the commuter pics. Here's a couple jpg's of the bike I spec'd just for commuting.
I have a full "road test", but it's too big for uploading. All the best. DanO

Here's a jpg of my purpose built Surly Crosscheck commuter.
It features a Sram 7 speed hub, FSA cranks and a carbon fork.
Hey, how else do you save weight after spec'ing that Hub!

DanO

*drools*

Sweet Ride DanO!

Very fine. Great commuter and great photograph too. How are you liking where you mounted the shifter? Keep us informed on how you like riding the Sram 7.

Fuji S12-S from the local police auction. I've added fenders, a bell, and swapped out seats. Switched to kevlar belted tires, which is important for riding in the glass on the west side of Chicago. I'd like to change handlebars eventually.

One more thing - I put my older set of Speedplay pedals on, which is a big improvements. Dem' original pedals with toe clips was heavy!

I'm wiping my chin as well. That is one good looking commuter!!

Looks great!!! The only thing I'd add is fenders.

I've said it before and I'll say it again... fenders are dang sexy! and I'd add that hub gears are too now that I have one.

DanO, I know I mentioned it before, I ride with my shifter on a spacegrip next to my cross levers, how do you like your's down there and what did you use to mount them there?

Robert;

Though I've never been a fan of traditional friction bar ends I find the reach to the twist grip on my right drop to be very natural - even when standing. Perhaps this is because it's a clicker and I don't have to concentrate on shifting that much. The only superior arrangemet I can think of would be Shimano's new 8 speed sport hub which will be compatible with STI shifters.

As far as how I mounted it: I got lucky when scrounging for cheap used parts when I came across an old Cinelli bar at a local shop. The tubing was pretty thick, and of such a diameter that a piece of cheap steel MTB bar slid right into the end with little play. I secured the extension by drilling and tapping both bars and screwing in two small hex head cap bolts. Like I said, I got lucky. I don't think any of the newer bars made out of thinner walled tubing would have tolerated this kind of abuse, er, modification. One draw back to mounting this shifter on the end is that the the twist part of the grip can - and has - fallen off because the rest of the handgrip is not there to hold it on. I've been lazy in fabricating some sort of end cap to prevent this, so I'm just careful, so as not to end up with a single speed half way through my commute.

Take it easy. DanO

PS. I attempted to e-mail you via your web site. I attached a PDF document of a "road test" about this bike that was too large to post on the forum. If by chance you didn't recieve it and would like to check it out let me know.

Hey DanO, I'll check my email, I get so much a lot of it gets missed... aye, I'm glad they're coming out with an STI shifter for the 8, though unfortunately I plan on using the 8 with a bike that will have V-brakes... so I'm locked into my 287V's... thus I'm also glad that they will be releasing a revo shifter for the 8 alone (stand lone, not a brifter)... though the stand alone shifter won't be out until the coaster brake edition which is still another 6 months from what I hear... oh I'm anxious!

Don't need fenders in Southern California. DanO

Yes, but don't you want your bike to be too sexy for its rider? ;)

I tried running Avid cantilevers (old school cyclocross and all that...) but had to switch to V-brakes. The cantees were awful. The front especially did not agree with the carbon fork... made it shimmy all over the place. Anyway, I run those roller adapters between my road levers and V-brakes and they work fine.

I tried those... I couldn't get down with them... so I tossed'em... maybe I'll try again.. I guess that shows how closely I pay attention to details sometimes... I was just admiring it as a whole i guess and that oh so purty chainline :) No wait, ok, I'm not a dimwit... that photo still has the canti's... <phew>

Here is one of mine, a '93 Raleigh...

I don't have a picture, but I've got a trek 400 with 700 28c tires, a rack and a grocery-sack clipped on that carries my backpack. I use SPD pedals and a suspension seatpost with a gel seat. All this for a grand 5 Miles. But I'm comfy. :D

This isn’t my bike, but this guy takes commuting to a new level.

I was on a big organized ride this weekend (TOSRV) and a guy had this machine entertaining at the lunch stop. It is a totally self contained music machine. It has a keyboard attached to the handle bars a set of speakers and I think an amplifier running off what looks like a 12v battery.