My 2016 Trek Crockett. I use a backpack to carry items. Speedy and fun.

That bar tape really pops!!

Thanks for the link. I never would have thought to look for something like that.

Here's my trusty 2005 Trek 7300. Planet Bike fenders, Topeak rack. I use a Shark 500 USB light, and a couple of blinkies for the back. The seatpost and Brooks B17 Imperial S saddle are new, and I love them so much! The saddle has probably 300 miles on it so far. The bag under the saddle carries CO2 inflator and 2 canisters, plus a new tube and patch kit. I run thorn-resistant tubes with goo, due to all the awesome goathead thorns of Colorado.

I keep the bike on the bike rack on my car at night, so I remove the saddle/seatpost and bring it inside with me. So far I've been covering the hole in the frame with a plastic bag and a rubber band, although I'd like to get a seatpost plug. I lock it to the bike rack with some MasterLock BikeCuffs, and a 6' cable through each tire, and I also use the lock that comes with the rack. So far, no-one has tried to steal my sweet $100 bike (I paid $414 for it back in 2006, brand new from the shop).

I can't wait to get panniers, or maybe a trunk bag would hold all my stuff. I currently strap my Osprey backpack to the rack with bungees. I got the rack recently, and it's so nice to ride swift and free, without a backpack.

The sweet background is a supply room where I work. As far as maintenance, I try to air up the tires before every ride, and I lube the chain every week with a lube recommended by my LBS.

I love my Trek, but have dreams of perhaps a Salsa one day.

Very nice bike, though I do have mixed feelings about the handlebar tape.

What kind of brakes are those? Is the straddle cable held up somehow if the pull cable breaks?

The brakes are cantilever style.

They are Avid Shorty Ultimates.

If the pull cable breaks, the straddle cable will stay put as it is anchored in place.

Yeah, interesting solution to that problem... still don't see quite how it works (what it's attached to) but thanks. I'll go searching.

Completely refurbished '79 Fuji America

Looks like it is bolted to the hole in the fork, where one might mount fenders or a headlight. An alternative to having the cable stop hanging from your headset.

I just re-refurbished my 1974 Raleigh International. Now it has indexed gears in a 3x8 drivetrain.

Hi everyone!

I got my 29er transformed in a kind of a "Monster Cross".



10v 11-42T cassette and 36T chainring.

Behold: My Straggler commuter build is complete !

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Beautiful bike. I like it.

Beautiful bike!

Sweet!

Yeah, let's all go down and ride with him.

The hanger is bolted to the fork, I have a fork-mounted hanger as well, all that does is hold the end of the brake cable housing. If the pull cable breaks, I'm pretty sure there's nothing to prevent the straddle cable from falling onto the tire. That's why Shimano invented the "link-wire"

Amazing! Only I would change for me is the pedals to double-duty platform/SPD. I've never heard of those Nitto Bosco bars before. Looks like something that would go well on my utility bike, although all of my bikes use 31.8 stems and bars. Looks like they cost a grip, too.

My daily commuter '74 Peugeot U08 build.


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My commuter... out for more of an adventure ride on this particular day. Future location of the KATY (Rock Island) Trail extension into Kansas City!

Garage sale find for $20, it's seen plenty of iterations, main road bike, fixed gear, single speed, now a 1x5. Drops, north road, now flat.

I like the bold colors (pink and green). Haven't heard of this model before. Looked it up and its one of their cyclocross bikes:

Crockett | Trek Bikes

Nice.

Edit: Maybe if you could find a saddle in a similar green color, then it might complete the color? But that might be a challenge come to think of it...

For many years I lived in KC. Hopefully you enjoy it there. Undoubtedly with AC. My memory of KC is people running from their cars with AC into their homes or offices with AC. All the while making sure to never venture into the foreboding, wanting wasteland that lays between. Things have sure changed since we first moved there in 1993. Now the summers are quite literally unbearable. For comparison, my time in the marines and in the desert was a vacation compared to the summers in KC (thank you desert for your lack of water vapor). There are however still two times per year in which the weather is for a couple of weeks utterly perfect in KC. Good luck and God speed my cycling friend!

I also really want one of those. Davy Crockett being one of my childhood hero's helps too.