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My '71 Raleigh Superbe slumped up near my milling machine
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The office landlord was kind enough to let me stash this '92 Stumpjumper between buildings. It was safe but outdoors. Ride home was 24 miles, half off road, half road
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Carried up four flights of stairs my Ace retro-roadie sits by the water to stay hydrated, under the watch of Old Glory and adjacent to the emergency exit for a speedy return home.
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First ride with a loaded basket today. A little noodly, so may need some fine tuning, but the shifting and gearing are perfect!
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After a nice summer hiatus (teacher), I resumed biking to work last week. My commute is only about 4 miles each way, but it's a good 700' of loaded climbing to start the day.
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Here's my 1975 Viscount, converted to fixie. I think I'll convert it to single-speed freewheel soon. Here it is parked at college where I'm taking classes.
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The only pic I have of a parked bike at work is my straight bar/single speed converted Motobecane Nomad after a delivery truck backed into and then drove off. I was able to bend the rear triangle back to nearly straight, but it's never been quite the same as it was.
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Put the raceblades on the team miyata....lots of light for the pitch black ride home, helmet cover and bright reflectiver whaterproof pack cover (use year round for the visibiliy)
in front of the bike lockers
in front of the bike lockers
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I have (sadly) been driving to work now that I have to take my kid to school, but I still am inspired by this thread and its continued updates. Hopefully I will have photos to post here again, someday!
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@squirtdad , how long have you had that pack cover? Mine's a Salzmann brand, but it looks a lot like yours. I've had it two years, maybe three, and it's starting to fall apart.
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How does it handle for a commuter? It looks pretty awesome! I've been looking to buy one but the only one that appears for sale in the country on Kijiji is $950 CAD and is 3000km away
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@squirtdad , how long have you had that pack cover? Mine's a Salzmann brand, but it looks a lot like yours. I've had it two years, maybe three, and it's starting to fall apart.
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I use biggest tire i can fit right now Conti GP 5000 28mm
The only down sides (and the are minor for me) is that using a bike like this I don't have a rack (although I have jury rigged before) and not full fenders when it rains
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Took the Cimarron to work today. 28 mile RT. I prefer a road bike for such trips but it was fun sitting up with fat tires.
Took the Cimarron to work today. 28 mile RT. I prefer a road bike for such trips but it was fun sitting up with fat tires.
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But...I work at home....
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that means you need to make it a round trip...out the front door, do a ride, and in the back door....and at end of work out the back door, do a ride, and in the front door
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Which brooks saddle is that?
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My '72 Sprite single speed on warehouse duty:
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I donated my old Praktica FX3 that I used for my high school yearbook in the mid '70s... Body was stamped on the underside of the lens mount: 'Made in E Germany under USSR Occupation' so I'm guessing it was made some time in the '50s? The FX3 was SLR, but did not use the later viewing prism - so I looked down onto a frosted glass viewscreen like many vintage DLRs. Pentax-style screw mount lens, so I would 'borrow' my dad's 85-205 zoom lens to take candids of 'life' in my school. More than half of the candid photos that were published in the yearbook were mine. Since I didn't have to have the camera up to my face, classmates would act 'normal', but then they'd hear the 'Twhock' of the focal-plane cloth shutter and cuss me out. Ha-ha! Busted!! Too late!!! The school provided the film (Kodak Tri-X B&W ASA400) but I also took some of my own color pics. My school had a darkroom (and I had made my own key made ) so I spent many hours developing both film and prints...
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It would be easier to take a picture of it in my kitchen. In the trainer. Where I don't have to clean it after riding...
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I donated my old Praktica FX3 that I used for my high school yearbook in the mid '70s... Body was stamped on the underside of the lens mount: 'Made in E Germany under USSR Occupation' so I'm guessing it was made some time in the '50s? The FX3 was SLR, but did not use the later viewing prism - so I looked down onto a frosted glass viewscreen like many vintage DLRs. Pentax-style screw mount lens, so I would 'borrow' my dad's 85-205 zoom lens to take candids of 'life' in my school. More than half of the candid photos that were published in the yearbook were mine. Since I didn't have to have the camera up to my face, classmates would act 'normal', but then they'd hear the 'Twhock' of the focal-plane cloth shutter and cuss me out. Ha-ha! Busted!! Too late!!! The school provided the film (Kodak Tri-X B&W ASA400) but I also took some of my own color pics. My school had a darkroom (and I had made my own key made ) so I spent many hours developing both film and prints...
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^^^^^ Those old Mamiya/Sekor 500DTLs and 1000DTLs were some awful cameras, but were cheap and bulletproof. My dad bought a 1000DTL on the cheap at Montgomery Ward. A while later, I bought a brand new Ricoh TLS, even less expensive so I could borrow his lenses (Pentax M42 mount). Another cheap workhorse. My camera actually felt better, more solid, and the meter wasn't flaky like Dad's. Shutter speed test was bang on. Then one day I dropped it down the FULL flight of basement stairs (HARD tile). Nice dent in the pentaprism, and the meter flaked out, but it still shot flawlessly. I even got a B&W photo of an old mill in Nowhere, W. Va. (Pan-X 32 ASA) published in our senior year literature/art magazine. They had to put "Photo by...." in the caption, because everyone thought it was a drawing/painting.
I was also a yearbook photographer. Part of senior year, I had a "side hustle" (decades before the kids called it that) that geve me access to an old Rolleiflex TLR, so I had that same advantage of a waist-level view. That also came with a Honeywell "potato masher" oval flash on a side bracket. Looked impressive, for a skinny 17-year-old to be carrying around.
Oops -- sorry, Friday topic creep.... New season, "new" bike. Running a '93-ish Hard Rock for the winter. Been on street tires all week, but there's been some threat of freezing rain today, so I swapped wheels an ran studdies today. This shot was yesterday, not _at_ work, but just downstairs and down the MUP from my office. Lake was doing the freeze/thaw thing, so weird shards/blocks of ice piling up on the shore.
I was also a yearbook photographer. Part of senior year, I had a "side hustle" (decades before the kids called it that) that geve me access to an old Rolleiflex TLR, so I had that same advantage of a waist-level view. That also came with a Honeywell "potato masher" oval flash on a side bracket. Looked impressive, for a skinny 17-year-old to be carrying around.
Oops -- sorry, Friday topic creep.... New season, "new" bike. Running a '93-ish Hard Rock for the winter. Been on street tires all week, but there's been some threat of freezing rain today, so I swapped wheels an ran studdies today. This shot was yesterday, not _at_ work, but just downstairs and down the MUP from my office. Lake was doing the freeze/thaw thing, so weird shards/blocks of ice piling up on the shore.