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Old 08-09-19, 01:29 PM
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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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Old 08-20-19, 10:37 AM
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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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Old 08-30-19, 09:21 AM
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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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Old 12-09-19, 11:58 AM
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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

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Old 12-11-19, 11:57 AM
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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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Old 12-11-19, 12:38 PM
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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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Originally Posted by squirtdad
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


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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Originally Posted by madpogue
@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.
I have had it about 2 years and is is holding up well so far. Mine is Salzmann also and probably like yours from Amazon........IIRC cost was under $20 so not too concerned if it dies
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Old 12-11-19, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by BikeWonder
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
it is great...it handles like a Miyata Team race bike Seriously my philosophy has been to ride my best most fun bike when commuting as bikes are meant ti be used.....so I have commuted on Miyata 1400, De Rosa and this Team Miyata (and I have another with friction and Eroica set up I mix in)

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.

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But...I work at home....
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Originally Posted by TriBiker19
But...I work at home....
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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Originally Posted by edouble8
My commuter is locked close to our building entrance with other commuters:


While not steel lugged, this classic aluminum '91 Cannondale ST1000 is my daily commuter:


If it's not raining, I'll select one of my steel vintage bikes and lock it on the same rack.
Which brooks saddle is that?
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My '72 Sprite single speed on warehouse duty:


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My '72 Sprite single speed on warehouse duty
It's not doing a very good job - that box to the left is on its side.
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It's not doing a very good job - that box to the left is on its side.
can't be bothered - it's WBWU (warehouse bicycle workers' union).
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Haphazard stacks = my life. Sigh.


Yes, it's an old Rolleicord, currently non-functional; I am trying to decide whether to send it out for repair. Same with the 35s. I teach in a large high school photography program that still has an active film/darkroom component.
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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Originally Posted by squirtdad
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
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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Originally Posted by 6Speed
Which brooks saddle is that?
Brooks B17 Special Honey
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Originally Posted by Cougrrcj
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...
memories there.... used the school Maymia/sekor 35 SLR. with Honeywell flash. Lot of tri-x shots for the yearbook.....all developed and printed is the school darkroom.
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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.

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