Here's my commuter/exercise/utility etc bike. It's an early 90s Giant mtb. Replaced the knobby tires with commuter-type ones, and spray painted away the orange swirl paint job and oversized make/model text. Fenders are cheap Avenirs, seatbag and basket also. Lights are from Harbor Freight and the pump is a Topeak.

nice, love me some green bike and ive been thinking about some 'stash bars myself lately

we have the same fender which is bonus

ps: lol @ carvel sticker

My Michigan utility/grocery getter, 1996 Trek 850, bought new.

Nice! I just bought the same bike on Monday. Expect to get the racks & fenders on this weekend. Rode it to work the past two days below freezing. Coworkers thing I'm crazy. I say it beats biking in humidity & heat.

Congrats onthe new bike! Just got my rear rack and trunk. Pics soon.

Personally, I sooo disagree with you. Can't wait for it to warm up some, and I'm in the south! All you snow-riders are crazy. Nice bike BTW.

Just picked this "new" old bike up a few days ago, and I've just gotten it dialed in most of the way as my new commuter bike. The historical purist in me still wants to replace the rear rack with something that's a little less anachronistic to the rest of the bike, but the current one still works quite well in a purely functional sense. Not sure if I'm going to mount fenders on it just yet, or if I'm going to use rainy days as an excuse to relieve my old hybrid from it's newly found state of neglect.

I'm liking the Fuji. Every old bike out here have outragous prices on them. Everyone thinks they're gold.

I also prefer riding in heat to cold, but riding in the cold beats not riding. It certainly beats driving!

My first post. Ribble Audax enjoying the winter sun on the Bristol to Bath cycle path.

I wouldn't be surprised if already hotter and more humid in GA than we experience all summer. I start to shut down if it gets above 71.

Yeah, that rack and light setup isn't doing your bike any favors, aesthetically speaking. Otherwise, it's pretty handsome, except for the poorly wrapped bars and excessively worn (relative to the rest of the bike) seat.

This is the new commuter I just finished for my coworker, Tony. He and his wife just moved to the Twin Cities, and he mentioned he wanted to get a bike. There had been an unrideable bike hanging abandoned in a tree in my neighborhood for a few months (?) . It appeared ripe, so I plucked it. I really hope no one had been looking for it or anything-- I would feel terrible about that. But it had been there so long, and required so much work to even be ridable... So anyways, I replaced a bunch of parts, overhauled the rear hub and bottom bracket, and voila! I really like how it turned out.


(here's how I found it)

Any more pics of this set up? I like the looks of that rear rack.

First commute in a long time today... who cares about all the snow and craptastic roads when you can roll yourself a big fatty ?

^ Now that's a pair of tires!

What do you have in there? Like 3.4 psi of air pressure?

8 psi... and still covering ground faster than most as the churned up snow on the otherwise hard packed roads will bog other bikes down.

I need to run some chains for ice...

Was not gonna ask this but its just killin me. Wire bead or folding bead?!

Oh, and with or without inner tubes?

Cheers. It's a Tortec Expedition rack.

Having trouble uploading a pic on my phone. Will share later.

These are the older, original wire bead Endomorphs with a 60 tpi casing, the newer version of the Endomorph is offered in a really supple 120 tpi but despite that these 60 tpi tyres can be run as low as 5 psi... they are a great all rounder for fat bikes and will handle pretty much anything you can toss at them (except ice) if you have decent riding skills.

If any fat biker has an older pair of Endomorphs they want to part with I'd be happy to take them off their hands so I could stud them up for winter riding...

I'd be rocking a rear fender if I had my rear rack installed (it is integrated into that) but am wrapping up a build on a custom rack... the Endos do not kick up as much crud as the knobbier tyres you can now buy and when it is cold and dry a fender is not that essential anyways.

The SS wheels on this bike weigh 8 pounds each... the tubes account for 2 pounds of each tyres weight and provide good puncture protection... the 3.7 Endomorph is actually lighter than the 2.3 downhill tyres on my hard tail and quite thin to provide that suppleness.

My restored 1970 Robin Hood that I have converted into a Single Speed...(look ma no hand brakes) with Minoura Wood Racks from Japan and custom wooden pedals and my hand painted kirkland turtle bell...I truly love this bike and its the ultimate grocery getter!

Beautiful bike. The hoods are a bit high for my taste, but if they work for you in that position, awesome.