Ah man I'm jealous, I wish my KHS frame were like that one, instead of the MTB frame I have. That one looks like mine with identical cable routing, but mine has no mounting points for anything other than bottle cages.

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This is my bike. I own it since dec 2007 and it has over 15.000 miles to date. Front tire is still that one from the picture.
I'm 5'5" so it's kinda difficult to find bicycles of my size, so I had to build it myself. Brand is my design too, it is how my lastname is spelled in french. It is the only one with that brand anyway :)
When I started to commute from home to college 22 years ago (1993) commuting was very rare in Bogota, despite we're a bicycle country (Colombia), now we are around 350K people on a regular day. We have around 400km of bike paths all around the city (Bogotá).
To date I have 74.500km (46.000 miles) just commuting. I take note every day from my cyclocomputer and recently source is GPS data as well.
Frame is a generic standard aluminum 26" MTB frame, size 15". Groupset is a 8spd Shimano Alivio 2007 which 3 years ago I upgraded to a 48TT chainring. Blackburn rack.

You can #ShareYourCommute on video too.

Just did a really quick, imprecise measurement on the front brakes. I have about 13cm of cable from the straddle to either brake arm. That's not counting any of the horizontal cable taken up by the straddle. Also the brake pads are quite low on the arms, nearly bottomed out up front for what it's worth (I could probably get a 650b wheel in there and still use the brakes, hmmmm). To be more specific: they still feel like Cantilever brakes. Which is to say, nearly any V brake will instantly outpower them with minimal set up time. But they feel a whole lot less mushy than the old horrible brakes. Probably most of it has to do with just how impossible it is to set up those old school canti pads without throwing my bike off a bridge, so I settle for "well, it stops me usually". They feel as good as any canti I've set up, and stop quite well, with much less hand strength required before lock up. I'm also much less critical of "braking power" than many people, and I actually prefer needing to use a bit of force before lock up as I've had a bit of a bad injury due to an accidental skid out in gravel with skinny tires + disk brakes...

The biggest improvement for me is peace of mind knowing the next time I need pads it will be a dream, even if I replace the whole thing and not just a cartridge. I figure the main adjustments won't have to be touched for a few years of every day commuting otherwise. I really did no fine tuning of the straddle, I just put it nearly as long as it would go with the supplied cable, since I am running 2.25" tires AND fenders.

Tubus stainless steel rack mounts work very well and look better than most other options.
Use the rear rack of your choice….

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=501466
Price: $9.99

Tubus Seat Stay Mount

Stock status: 5+ in stock
Sold as a pair
Use these Seat Stay Mounts if your bicycle frame doesn't have eyelets above the brakes on the seat stays for mounting a rear rack. These stainless steel mounts attach to the upper struts of your rear rack.

The Tubus Seat Stay Mounts include 2 long stainless steel brackets that are bent around the seat stays. The rack mounts in the outer hole and the inner hole is used for clamping to the seat stay. By isolating the clamping to the seat stay from the clamping to the rack, these mounts are a very strong and tight fit for mounting the Tubus Vega or other Tubus rear racks.These Seat Stay Mounts also work for the Racktime Rear Racks.

Measure the diameter of your seat stays to determine what size mounts to order. The best place to measure the diameter of the seat stays is above the brake caliper posts. The most accurate way to measure the diameter of your seat stay is to measure the circumference of the tube by wrapping a string or flexible tape measure around the tubing, take this measurement and divide it by pi (3.14).

Available sizes:
14mm, 16mm, 18-19mm, 21-22mm, and 24-25mm. (If your seat stays are in between sizes, use the next larger size, with a shim)

https://www.bikebagshop.com/tubus-se...T4PhoCpb_w_wcB

Cheap, light duty front racks that don't need much to mount:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=501467
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=501469
http://sunlitecycling.com/products.php?cl1=RACKS+FOR+BIKES


Or, better, but spendier:
http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=501470
https://www.bikebagshop.com/omm-pion...ck-p-2649.html

Been blessed with this beauty! It's a Litespeed, Ultrega Di2, Reynolds CF ds rims and Hutchinson sector 28 tubeless, tubus rack and Son dynamo. Smoothest and quickest responsive bike I ever ridden.
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my bikes that has commuter set up, but yellow one goes out on weekend mostly for leisure ride - and red one on working days to work,..

https://picasaweb.google.com/1078674.../January312016

I have three bikes I commute on regularly; a 1987 Specialized stumpjumper comp; a 1992 Trek 950; and a 1992 Bridgestone BB-1:

http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment...9&d=1450741134

http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment...3&d=1443392985

http://www.bikeforums.net/attachment...6&d=1409428059

great stable. I'd commute the hell out of any of those three

Awesome bike, but have you thought about a longer front fender? That short one won't do much to keep mucky spray off the BB and frame (and you).

I have thought about it and i want to install the front SKS fender that came with the rear. I started this thread to get some ideas on how.
http://www.bikeforums.net/commuting/...t-cf-fork.html

My regular commuter got wrecked, so I had to use my sweet Roubaix. It looks funny to me to have a trailer, but it sure works well.
Still waiting for my new bike to arrive.
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1551/...cdae29f1_z.jpg
Roubaix with Travoy. It's like a Porsche with a trailer! by curtis corlew, on Flickr

too funny - 'Porsche with a trailer' -

Nice lookin' ride though!

Those are some beee-u-tiful bikes!!!

That Bridgestone looks super clean - like showroom floor clean.

I'm really liking the looks of those Specialized Stumpjumpers as well.

I've not updated my entry herein since, well quite a while....

So, here's my High Plains still as yet un-powder-coated, but that's probably going to be about the last thing I do to it. I'm looking to add a front rack and panniers this spring.




OK, so for some reason, I can't upload my pics from my photobucket account (as well as some weird typing/posting stuff going on here)......

I'll try later

Thanks!

Reminds me of pulling my son's trailer with my road bike heh.

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I like your pvc bike stand. Did you glue it together, or just squeeze? Before I moved, I had a bunch of spare pvc from making a game of ladder-ball the kids never played with, wish I still had it, a little stand would be very useful.

Glued it together. I made that one especially to carry both my bike and my wife's bike in the back of my dad's truck for this trip. We also used it on another trip just 2 weeks after that one.

https://scontent-atl3-1.cdninstagram...27757108_n.jpg

How much did that cost for all the PVC?

Really cool! That explains the irregular dimensions of the legs, for a perfectly customized fit into your truck bed!

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foot of snow today, these seemed like a reasonable alternative considering the condition of the roads and sidewalks. A new co worker rode her 29er f/s bike all the way in, and took my usual parking spot. I feel like she earned it now.;)

I've towed a trailer with a racing bike. It works surprisingly well!

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=502201
88 Bianchi Strada - just keeps going.

I found an old Cannondale CAAD3 mtn frame I think I'm going to build with 700s and a road fork & groupset. Just annoying it won't have eyelets for a rack.

Sold the 2010 Kona Smoke last fall and replaced it with this.

http://i1324.photobucket.com/albums/...psdfizgxli.jpg