Beauty.

Nice.

Wowee, that's beautiful!

Not mine, but oh boy, i would love to have it. This was last year some time in late spring.



My old full suspension bike, ready for trash day this past july.


Mine from a grocery run in june.




- Andy

:/ My main close range commuter is seeming to look more and more like a homeless persons bike, but I freaking love it. This pic is just after installing the new bars, but just before doing the cabling.

My Peugeot U08 Bronx/Yonkers commuter which I love for its smooth, comfortable ride. It is great on the hills here too.

My two commuters I just built up this month. Firenze gl-2000 and a schwinn frontier. I gave the frontier to my girlfriend after she got me the Firenze I found. I just came across and finished the Firenze intalled quick release wheelset 700x38 tires planet bike fenders went from a 6 speed freewheel to a 7 speed cassette moved the friction shifters from top tube to down tube yellow planet bike cork bar tape and tektro basic road brakes. Have cross inline brake levers on order.

Dawes Lightning CX. Picked it up from everybody's favorite bike retailer and almost managed to cut out the middle man, but alas! My wheels arrived dinged up and my amateur truing skills couldn't straighten them out for the life of me so I made that dreaded trip to my LBS. Even after paying for a basic tune up I still came out on top, as an equivalently specced bike would have cost me about $100-$150 had I bought it from them. Since this picture was taken, I've swapped out the tires to Continental Sports Contact (28mm) and WELLGO RC-713 clipless pedals.

Its heavy as a mo-fo (~25lbs before the rack) but still an upgrade from the vintage scrap metal I was hauling around on (see below)

you shoulda contacted bd; I've heard good things about their support. I would expect them to have sent you wheels, and a shipping label to return the damaged wheels in the same box.

Well, I've had it for more than a decade, but it finally earned "commuter" status.



It's a plain jane Gary Fisher "Wahoo" that I got on deep discount at the LBS. Though I thought it was OK during the test ride, it was never as comfortable as my Schwinn, so it went onto a hook in the garage. Last year I got studded tires for it, and it's now my winter bike. (Yes, I went to studs on both front and back, since it's now snowing in earnest). Nokian 160's.

The handlebars are swept back 15 degrees, my last experiment before I switched to "north road" bars on my other bikes for good. This one will get the same treatment, sooner or later. Here's the latest from my Inner Fred:



It's an old "Mirrycle" mirror from when I had drop bars. A piece of 1/2 inch PVC pipe just fits in my handlebars. I slit it, and used an old 5/16" axle to hold it together, with the bearing cone as a spreader nut! I really like having a mirror. When riding in the dark, I can see cars coming from the distance, and move over as they approach.

Bike is a 1988 Trek 830 frame that I bought off eBay as new old stock, meaning it had never been built into a bike.
Fork is a cro-mo disc cross fork. Brake is a BB5.
All parts were new or spare parts I had lying around.

I would love to find an old frame like that and build up a bike. I dont think frames are around here.

That's a great looking commuter.

Thanks!

First "winter" storm for the uptown. The tires are PERFECT for these conditions!!



Dark out now, should be a fun ride home!

- Andy

Broke a couple of spokes on the commuter last night... so I dug out the backup commuter (2000 Klein Quantum Race). I've had to use it a couple times over the course of this year when I've had mechanical issues... so I guess it officially qualifies as a commuter bike itself. Not necessarily a fun commuter-riding bike, but not bad every once in a while. Very fast... VERY stiff!!!

I think I broke one of your spokes just by looking at that picture! Sorry about that...

...not to mention, the paint scheme may burn out your retinas in just the right light. :-)

I commute on a bike like that always, just have it outfitted with a rack and trunk bag, and have clip-on fenders when needed.

That bike is so stiff it rattled Chuck Norris!

Don't get me wrong, I love this bike! I've owned it for several years and it's a great road bike. I'm just saying it doesn't make a good commuter, for me, in its present configuration.

Here's mine, a mid-1980s KHS Winner 10-speed. I've added a rear rack for panniers since taking this photo:



That's our elBoda Boda in the background, for the times we want to go somewhere on bikes with kiddo in the "back seat."

My wife got a new car this summer, so I decided that surely, I deserved a new bike! It took a while to get it all together, but i finally finished and installed the last (rear) fender today.

In addition to the frame, I used a number of V-O parts as well. The rims, bar-tape, saddle and stem are all V-O. The dynohub is a Shutter Precision sp-8 hooked up to B&M front and rear lights. The wheels are 650b with Grand Bois Hetre tires and a 2X8 drivetrain recycled from a previous build. The fenders are home-made (if that wasn't obvious) from layers of cherry veneer bent around a frame. Best of all, the S&S couplers allow me to disassemble the whole thing and pack it into an airline certified case for travel! It isn't the simplest thing to pack, but the fact that it *can* be packed is really great.

Elegant.