My Waterford (1997) and my Giant (1980-something) have quill stems, my newer bikes (Kona Smoke 2007 and Surly CC 2007) have the new-fangled threadless thingies. I had to buy a new stem to adjust the position of my Surly's bars at all, which just chapped my hide somethin' fierce, let me tell ya!
Some of the quill stems are sculptural beauties, too. Like the Nitto Technomic and the Nitto lugged. Peter White has a nice selection of hard-to-find quill stems on this page: http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/stems.asp
sigh. so pretty...
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02-23-2008, 07:38 AM #1
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02-23-2008, 07:49 AM #2
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Here's another commuter-mobile, with integral rack.
http://www.khsbicycles.com/09_mocha_08.htm
I'm feeling a spontaneous loss of income tax return coming on..."If Americans want to live the American Dream, they should go to Denmark." - Richard Wilkinson
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02-23-2008, 08:01 AM #3
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Juuuust kissing up to my arbitrary $500 limit for a commuter bike, but it's steel, too:
http://www.jamisbikes.com/usa/bikes/...s/08codaf.html
(I have 4 bikes, someone stop me. Well, no, I'm performing this virtual-shopping commuter bike search as a form of public service, so I can keep looking. yeah, that's it...)Last edited by KnottedYet; 02-23-2008 at 08:05 AM.
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02-23-2008, 08:08 AM #4
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I'd save the spontaneous loss of income tax for the wicker basket on the new/old Giant
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02-23-2008, 08:15 AM #5
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Yes, one simply *must* have a wicker basket on the handle bars when passing racer-boys on the bike trail, with a merrily jingling bike bell and singing out "on your left!"
Skirt, sandals, and blowing kisses optional.
(I have noticed that the really fast riders I can't get past, or even catch up to, are ususally the "Freds" on rather battered older bikes. I bow to their bike-iness)
I've seen a few bungee nets for handlebar baskets, so commuters or utility riders don't have to worry about their stuff bouncing out."If Americans want to live the American Dream, they should go to Denmark." - Richard Wilkinson
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02-23-2008, 08:51 AM #6
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all of them seem VERY reasonably priced if you ask me...
course I vote for the coda...as i LOVE my aurora...and I rode a coda (for size check) and found it good...
my specialized globe was 700. and its aluminum
(before I realized I even had a choice and what that choice meant) but it DOES have 8 internal gears...lovely sealed hub...extraordinary shifting ease....
and you're being far more reasonable than I...who, STILL stuck in virus ville, is unable to ride and so is "shopping" for my custom handbuilt...luna? sweetpea? co-motion??
Discipline is remembering what you want.
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