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The nicest commuter I've seen for ages!

35 posts & 25 voices | Started 2 years ago by zaskar | Latest reply from langy

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zaskar - Inactive

I was looking online for sks full wrap arounds and found this:

Linky for spec and oldy article

I envy you greenstork whoever you are!

Posted 2 years ago #
takisawa2 - Member

That is bloody lovely.

Posted 2 years ago #
Old Git Surrey - Member

Brooks Professional saddle - klasse!!

Here's my commuter / CTC iron / newspaper round bike:-

Now has full-length mudguards.

Posted 2 years ago #
CaptainFlashheart - Member

Like. Lots. Classy looking thing!

Posted 2 years ago #
bassspine - Member

I rather like this

concept only so far...

Posted 2 years ago #
binners - Member

How can you build a bike like that, then disfigure it with mudguards.

It should be an arrestable offense

Posted 2 years ago #
zaskar - Inactive

Nice one Old Git Surrey (you won't see my commuter till I've stuck my guards on-great parts from scrap bin but hideous Frankenstein job!)

If Binners could see my winter trainer or hack/commuter he'd arrest me for abusive of bike building!

Mudguards stop you having a mucky rear end when you get to work etc!

You should see the Tortec with reflective go faster stripes!

Posted 2 years ago #
CaptainFlashheart - Member

Binners, riding in the rain = Mudguards are good! They're great, in fact.

That Cannondale Duchess is a work of art.

Posted 2 years ago #
corroded - Member

Commuter bikes without mudguards are pointless. Borrowed one of these in Copenhagen and it, well, rocked.

Posted 2 years ago #
tang - Member

shit thats nice, id never commute on it. summer days, country roads...

Posted 2 years ago #
djglover - Member

Mine is nicer than that

Posted 2 years ago #
finbar - Member

at the Dura Ace triple, Shimano/Campagnolo mix, meerkat stem spacers and discs on a road bike. All wrong.

Posted 2 years ago #
Old Git Surrey - Member

Nicest commuter I've ever seen?

Posted 2 years ago #
dooge - Member

she ought to be careful, locking her arms out like that....

Posted 2 years ago #
djglover - Member

Bet she has a suspension seatpost, with no saddle attached to it.

Posted 2 years ago #
Old Git Surrey - Member

Apparently the bike (Velorbis Dannebrog, or something) is overpriced sh1te!

Hope she's not the same.

Posted 2 years ago #
vdubber67 - Member

Is it me or does the frame in the OP have a really weird interface between top tube and head tube?

I'm not that keen on it really... sorry

Posted 2 years ago #
thebikechain - Member

got my eye on a cross check as my next commuter. think they look ace in a weird sort of way.

Posted 2 years ago #
brakes - Member

very expensive gate
tall people shouldn't be allowed to ride bikes, not in daylight anyway

Posted 2 years ago #
tthew - Member

OP,

If you have a Cyclelife, (Raleigh) store nearby, their full length mudguards are made by SKS, look exactly the same quality and manufacure but are about 1/2 the price. As modeled here. (thought a poor view of them I'll grant you, sorry if you've seen this before)

Posted 2 years ago #
Sam - Member

I'm not a huge fan of the extended headtube either. If you like that, then you may like this.

Posted 2 years ago #
miketually - Member

The Cannondale Dutchess is lush.

Posted 2 years ago #
zaskar - Inactive

Thanks tthew, just found one in Bristol

(bit hidden away and lousy service last time I used them but under new management now so will take a look!)

Posted 2 years ago #
tracknicko - Member

Argh old git surrey!

argh! backwards elbows!

just been sick on my keyboard.

Posted 2 years ago #
one_happy_hippy - Member

Demon @ cycle show

Demon Frameworks

Posted 2 years ago #
theflatboy - Member

mine's clearly the nicest*

*may be subjective.

Posted 2 years ago #
myfatherwasawolf - Member

Sorry but the bike in the OP just looks terrible. Extended headtube AND pointy-uppy stem? I don't think so. Dura-ace triple, straight forks and discs? Could not be further from nice if it tried.

djglover's is more like it, whereas flatboy's is closer to the reality of commuting (at least my reality)!

Posted 2 years ago #
binners - Member

My SS commuter. Withut mudguards, obviously

http://newimages.fotopic.net/?iid=ykf7hk&outx=600&noresize=1&nostamp=1

Posted 2 years ago #
binners - Member

or even:

http://adamrowlinson.fotopic.net/p35468267.html

http://adamrowlinson.fotopic.net/p35468265.html

functional!

Posted 2 years ago #
BigDummy - Member

I like that one Sam's linked a very lot.

Posted 2 years ago #
zaskar - Inactive

Nice bikes posted up!

Posted 2 years ago #
no_eyed_deer - Member

Nicest commuter...?

...Sorry, had to be done

Posted 2 years ago #
Dancake - Member

OH MY GOD SHE HASNT GOT A HELMET!!!!

Posted 2 years ago #
theflatboy - Member

are you offering?

Posted 2 years ago #
langy - Member

@flatboy

Posted 2 years ago #