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I was just wondering what you guys prefer for your commutes.
Road bike, mountainbike, or other.
Drop or flat bar
Fixie,Singlespeed or gears
Spd's or flats
Varies dependant on length of commute?
has to have mudguards a rack and spds.
Specialized Allez road bike with no particular commuting concessions except mudguards.
Speccy Allez before and now a ribble Sportive Carbon with race guards 🙂
14 miles/day 3 times a week.
Singlspeed mtb
No racks
No mudguards
Flats
3.5 miles to work
6.5 miles home (scenic route)
Fixed road bike.
Between 10 and 30 miles a day.
Fixed road bike, rack and full 'guards.
steel road frame. SS. flat bars. flat pedals so i'm more comfy in the pub. mud guards. 3/4 miles each way.
Alu HT, 100mm forks, 2.3 slicks, flats, rack, dynamo wheel, sorted
Normal (ie. 18 spd) road bike, built from a bastardised bunch of bits, with the wonderful Crud Roadracer mudguards. 11-15 miles.
Oh BTW anyone want a 2006 Alu Specialized Allez frame - 56cm 🙂
mtb / rigid fork
flat bars
geared 44/34 25-13
flat pedals
mudguards at the moment.
Audax type road bike. Although at the moment I am quite into shoes and coat.
I use my old mtb with rigid forks amd 1.35 slicks.
Now it's heavy with rack, mud guards and easy ratio.
I only regret using disc brakes that get in the way of mudguard stays.
But I can stop on a coin in the wet rather than road bike 50 feet later...
How many roadies were around in winter?
If it's under 8 miles one way you will be fine on 26 mtb but 8miles+ I would go for something with 700C wheels.
Are you carrying shopping? laptop? consider other uses and whether the the bike can do what you need.
My mtb won't allow me to overtrain as the ratios are for hills and luggage not 11-25 road.
Specialized Tricross Singlecross with slick tyres and full mudguards. Can't imagine why anyone would have a commuting bike without full mudguards!
Charge plug, fixed, SPDs with race blades (which will come off for the summer)
Geared touring bike with drops, discs, mudguards and rack.
It doubles as a winter training bike, but my commute's too hilly for fixed or ss.
700c
flat bars
full mudguards
rack
Vs or discs
28mm+ puncture-proof tyres
SS or hubgear
ideally belt-drive or with a decent chainguard
Gemesis IO ID with the alfine. Mary bars, full mudguards, rack mounts, hope mini discs.
mudguarded 'cross bike - usually with 25c slicks on, unless the weather is being particularly wintery
most of the kit on it is cast offs from the race 'cross bike, to keep the costs down
I don't commute, but I live in a city, so when I need stuff, I take-off and hit the roads on my HT, fitted with road tyres most of the time. Keeps my options open.
A tyre change and the HT is ready for the ST.
L.
fixed pompino, midge bars, mudguards with rack and panniers
WTP BMX.
might as well have no brakes, and in sheffield.
a real skills developer!
also the one (large) gear and inability to sit down does wonders for power in the old legs.
only about 2 miles each way.
Fixed road bike, mudguards, pannier, clips'n'straps, bullhorn bars. Hat & fold up waterproof trousers always in pannier in case it rains (which it usually doesn't). Loads of lights and a bell.
Cervelo S1 with full Ultegra 6700 10 speed group and RS80 carbon wheels for the not so dirty days or Genesis Flyer for the really manky ones.
Kinesis cross bike with full raceguards and semislicks.
Bike, bus or car.
Spesh Rockhopper, 1x9, old bombers, flats, risers, Elixir brakes
brilliant
Alu Hardtail, Pace RC31's, custom 2x9 set up, hydros, 185 discs (ludicrous), 24lbs. No racks, no guards.
Currently on Conti Vert Pros at 40psi in case of more wintery weather, but normally Schwalbe Marathons. It's ace!
About 2.5miles in - 6.5mins! ace. Home is about 3.5 along the river and offroad, takes about 15mins.
Road
Flat
Fixed
Eggbeaters
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Thorn Catalyst, 853 Rohloff. Rack and full mudguards came off when I changed it from an on road commuter to an off road one. Pace carbon forks replaced with Magura Odurs for low maintenance suspension.
An 80s 531 hack road bike with narrow flat bars, spd/flat pedals and Conti Ultra Gator 28mm tyres.
Rack with mudguard and a DIY crud catcher.
It looks rough, but it's quite nice to ride.
Revolution S1ngle (used as a fixie).
It's not in the photo but it now has a front-dynamo hub and LED standlights.
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Singlespeed mtb with big risers, Schwalbe Big Apple tyres, full mudguards and a huge metal basket on the front.
Specialized Langster (first generation one) SS road bike running a 48:17.
It's got a set of old SPD-R pedals on it, amazingly the shoes are still holding together but when they die I'll have to get new pedals as well cos you can't buy the cleats any more...
road, ss, drops, full guards, spd's with reflector clipin, 5miles each way
will get rack in due course.
I'm on a F700 Dale, Recon Solo Airs, Deore/LX group, LX wheels, LX discs, Conti Mountain Kings. Picked it up out of the classifieds. Figured killing XT regularly was going to get expensive so a second bike was required. 😉
5 miles off road down the canal. Way less dodgy than the road commute.
Old Man Mountain racks/Ortlieb panniers.
Old skool Ti-Inbred, RC31s, 700c Schwalbe Marathons, Hope Minis, Easton carbon bars n seatpost to take the sting out.
No mudguards, but love the closely fitted ones on hybrids/roadbikes.
[url= http://www2.merida-bikes.com/en_GB/Bikes.Detail.206 ]Merida Speeder T2[/url] with racks, full mudguards, panniers and some nice profile bar ends.
Someone left a BMX fitted with that thing for doing bar spins & a front pannier rack in the work car park last week. weird.
Alu roadie (with drops of course). full slick tyres, haven't needed to change them yet (touch wood) and SPD's.
No need for mudguards I have waterproofs.
Brompton for shorter runs inc trains:
SS Road bike for longer runs:
SPD and mudguards essential in either case.
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Drop bar ends (finding rohloff shifter friendly bars is a pain) and spds.
Mid 90's steel Marin Hybrid base bike.
Continental Supersport 32mm tyres.
Full mudguards and rack
Pannier
Lights
Flat pedals
Combination lock
Will be changed to single speed when an expensive gears or wheels repair is required. Is also used as the pub/shopping/knocking about bike and does more miles than the MTB and Road Bike put together.