[Closed] Show us your ... Winter Commuter

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Not quite what I had in mind rOcKeTdOg!

i dont really have a winter comuter, if its got good tyres for the snow i dont care what i ride lol

Same as the summer one.
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This is actually my all year commuter come rain/snow/shine or the recent perma headwinds. 🙂

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Used all year except when it snows. Soon to be changed to a flat bar.

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Specialized Tricross Sport, changed tyres to Conti Gatorskins 28mm, crankset to a Dura Ace triple and SKS Thermoplastics on it. Oh, and a front V Brake instead of the canti. Perfect!

Fixed wheel shed
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The locks even in the pic 🙂

Just need to square away the mudgaurds...- Tonights job 😳

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most of the bits off my summer FS bike were put on a 'spare' inbred frame last week. Hence XTR shifters, cranks and mech, Hope Pro2 hubs and Magura Marta brakes. Rides very well. I've got some proper 'guards to fit soon.

Will mostly be used for my twice a day 3 mile school run with trailer bike.

**** me OP that is one gopping bike.

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Now fitted with chain guard and dynamo lights.

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Also the summer commuter, winter training bike, cross bike (in action next weekend with a change to tyres and gearing). awesome bike!

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cynic-al - Member
**** me OP that is one gopping bike.

isn't that the point though? unnickable through undesirableness

Edit - Goddamit img link does work. Grrr...

The 105 version of this - plus lights nad mudguards. But it is 30 miles one-way, 2-3 times per week.
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Well it's the same as the summer commuter, but since it's just had its annual clean, cables and grease, it seems the best time to post up a pic of it;

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More a case of the spare parts box bolted together with some seriously bodged mudguard mounts.

robdob- sort your mudguards out and shifters are too high.

Teetosugars- also change the bar tape while your at it.

wwaswas- nice ladies saddle.

StirlingCrispin- WTF is that saddle bag !

foxyrider- Dont think your steerer tube is long enough.

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Unridden at that point. Two commutes this week. Those gear ratios will make a man of me. Surprisingly fun to ride as well.

kinkongsfinger - 😳 I like the shape of wtb saddles but not without a chamois - I think it's just well padded rather than girly though...

kingkongsfinger - Member

Teetosugars- also change the bar tape while your at it.

Why?

I quite like it... 😉

Oh, and it was free...

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Winter & Summer
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kingkongsfinger - Long enough for me 🙂

LOL @ your 'average' STW commuter.

With the odd exception, most people would be over the moon to have any of them as their [b]best[/b] bike !!

currently on a soul with seat psot rack but fancy a 1*10 roadrat after seeing that one in the pics

kingkongsfinger - Member

StirlingCrispin- WTF is that saddle bag !

Carradice Camper Longflap.
24l of load-lugging, which with the Klikfix can be removed from the bike in seconds. Rucsacs are for noobs.

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i winterised my commuter by adding some more reflective tape, changing the batteries in the rear light and repainting a few areas with underseal.

i fully intend to do the rear wheel bearings and buy some new brake blocks...

Here's my pub/around village bike with anti-theft device. 12 year Coyote frame with various bits which were lying around/picked up cheap. It's all going to be transferred to a 1994 Marin Bear Valley frame when I eventually get round to having it powder-coated.

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[i]anti-theft device[/i]

the [i]really[/i] slack chain? 😉

Never slipped yet. I would get a mech hanger/gears but it's not worth it for a 12 year old frame 😉

More a case of the spare parts box bolted together with some seriously bodged mudguard mounts.

[b]couldashouldawoulda[/b] how did you bodge those mud guards on! Impressed I tried and failed, but might have another go now.

Behold my commuter! The most disgustingly horrible (yet awesome) bike I have ever had or hopefully ever will have! 🙂
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Gothandy: for the front top I drilled a small hole in the arch (the fork is such a piece of c***). Then big hoseclips with holes drilled in the protuding part for the bottom. Threadlock on the bolts. Not pretty but it works.
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The frame already had a hole on the stay brace so I added some more drilled hoseclips near the dropouts.
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The guards are these (65mm mtb):
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/sks-chromoplastic-mudguard-set/

I used a cable tie round the arch on my sids, and cateye light brackets on each leg to secure my mudgaurds and they're solid 🙂

couldashouldawoulda - soumehow, though it shouldn't, that really works for me.

Mind is v unexciting. Here, in touring mode, on the ferry to Belgium a a couple of years ago. Doesn't sport a rack these days and is a whole lot filthier.

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Er actually its all i own.

either...

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/dickyelsdon/5132314976/ ]Long Haul Trucker[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/dickyelsdon/ ]dickyelsdon[/url], on Flickr

or

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OMITN: snap! Used mine for a tour of Holland this summer - I had a double-take when i saw your pic as I have a virtually identical one of mine (on Home PC, at work now) taken on a ferry.

Edit: on closer inspection I see yours is the 2.0, mine's the 3.0...this reminds me of a thread from a while back, sense of deja vu...

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This is after an audax ... rack and pannier fitted now.

Its a PX Uncle John, with the panels blacked out with black scotchlite. Looks normal until you get it under headlights, then it lights up like a christmas tree.

Same as the rest of the year...

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Just put this together for the really bad days, it'll also double up as my pub bike...

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foxyrider - that's a 4 and a half meg photo! can't resize?

Bike - all year round, but built for the worst. Lights and mudguards stay on all year round and are great when the weather catches you out.

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1 cat-eye light on tracing (side to side) mode and a 1/2 watt on steady. Eye catching but not too dazzling. Front has a P7 torch. Visibility from the side isn't the best until...

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You catch the reflective tyres

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And there's a little mirror to give you lots of warning of traffic coming up from behind.

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35 mm knobblies (Schwalbe Marathon XR or sommert).

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Same bike all year, just add a rear guard and some fluffy Velcro on the down tube in winter time

Two observations
1. A commuter should have mudguards
2. A Pub bike doesn't need suspension forks - even if they're crap they still make it more nickable

This is my 'all year round' commuter 😀

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(the bus, not the bike. It's cold here)

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Til rear end er...snapped ?

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Slightly damp Brompton sulking in the corner

bike/train/bike

covered in London filth - has taken half hour off my commute and no more tube for me, which is really very welcome

As an all year round cycle commuter, I'm a bit staggered that people are posting up bikes without mudguards, unless they are bikes in their summer guise. Are people really hopping on every wet winter day thinking; yes in 2 minutes time my crack will be full of freezing water, that's the way I roll???

^Crud Catchers are going on v.soon

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It does every season.
Now has loads of 3m tape on it to make me shine.

ace. these are great.

Here's mine

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/53067724@N00/5038567996/ ]pompino[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/53067724@N00/ ]Jon Wyatt[/url], on Flickr

A pompino, fixed obviously.

Come the new financial year, I'll be getting a new bike on the cycle to work scheme and this is the top of my list so far.

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A singular Gryphon....or maybe a roadrat. Hard to tell at the moment.

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That was as bought 18 months ago. Since put layback post on, new stem, SPDs and bar ends. Need a new rear tyre now, so taking recommendations.

Oh... and it stays like that all year. Mudguards may look shite, but help stop it getting knicked!

Now with a shorter Thomson Stem:
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Here she is!

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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/59140623@N02/5417039010/ ]IMAG0485[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/59140623@N02/ ]smoggy3[/url], on Flickr

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in all-year round guise, now with chain tensioner as the chain has stretched a bit

I have 2.

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Mostly using the Dummy at the mo' as my commute's barely 15 minutes. Pomp comes out training in the evenings. 🙂

Either of these two, depending on the weather (whether i can be bothered mostly!)
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Old Muddy Fox courier,
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Some Dutch touches...
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Ring a ding ding 😮
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my new purchase

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Any of you commuters know of full mudguards that would fit mine, with 2.3 slicks?
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summer fun
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set up for winter
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