Show us your commuter! Inspired by Andrea's thread...

[shootingstar]

I'll show mine...but I gave up after 15 min. of rumaging around in my photo collection. Sigh.

[kfergos]

You asked for a pic at work, so here it is, taken with a cell phone camera:


Depressing fact about parking there: Although this is inside a card-swipe entrance, I have come down to find that people fiddle with my bike, turning lights on or playing with the rotating front light. I also suspect, but cannot prove, that somebody stole my bike tool from my bag one day. Grrr. Hence the "Leave my bike alone" sign.

A nicer version, taken at home right after I got the white bar tape (which is now turning pretty black at the places where I put my hands most):

[GuitarRiderGrrl]

Hey hi,
heres mine, ummmm I took the fenders off already.... probably pretty dumb for the Pacific Northwest... my skunk stripe will be back

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i3...rrus_Small.jpg

[quiltingmick]

I ride a 14 km round trip to work at least twice a week on this:



It's a bit different from the other bikes posted here, but it's comfy and I love it!

[yauchzee]

This was my first road bike, a Lemond Big Sky S, turned commuter when I upgraded to a Madone this year:

[GLC1968]

Question: what are all our beautiful commuters doing at home? Let's see some pix out on the road, at the store, at work

Hey! My first pic shows my bike at a historical estate in NC that we rode to in order to take a tour (hence the lack of lights and fenders...it was a beautiful day). That's about as 'in action' as you're gonna get...it's hard to take a photo of my bike while I'm riding it!

[VeloVT]

Hey, KFergos, is that a Poprad? How do you like it??? I was THIS close to buying that bike (well, the 2006 version in pumpkin orange) instead of the Bianchi pictured on this thread. Actually had a deposit on it. Really hard decision -- the Bianchi ultimately felt snappier to me and I liked that -- but the Poprad steel is sooooo smooth...

I think the Lemond is actually much prettier than my Bianchi too ...

Be curious to hear what you think of it...

[applegum]

Wow I hope you guys with the super nice commuters aren't locking them up outside. I wish I could use my road bike to commute. It'd take no time at all to get everywhere. I do have my mom's old hybrid that I stuck some stickers on with me though (no pictures of it though). A friend of mine just got a 27 year old cruiser that used to be her boyfriend's mom's and I fixed it up a little for her today, but now I want to go buy one. It rides so smoooooth. But I already have two bikes and that just seems unnecessary .

[divingbiker]

Wow I hope you guys with the super nice commuters aren't locking them up outside.

Nah, we've got a fantastic bike room in the parking garage where I work. It requires a key fob for access, and only those who use the bike room have their fobs activated. There are wall hooks for probably 40 bikes, and great locker rooms with four showers. Here's what it looks like.

[tulip]

But I already have two bikes and that just seems unnecessary .

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! "Unnecessary," that's funny!

I'm down to just three active bikes now: my lovey Luna road bike, my go-anywhere and very neat Bike Friday road bike, and jammin' Jamis Coda urban bike. I also have one classic mountain bike ('85 Specialized Stumpjumper) that needs some fixing up.

I had three more, but the divorce took them: 1950s JC Higgins 3-speed (awesome chainring), my crashed '83 classic French Vitus that was too big for me anyways, and my 1989 Bridgestone MB2 mountain bike (another classic that would make a great single speed urban romper!). Oh well, such is life.

[kfergos]

Hey, KFergos, is that a Poprad? How do you like it??? I was THIS close to buying that bike (well, the 2006 version in pumpkin orange) instead of the Bianchi pictured on this thread. Actually had a deposit on it. Really hard decision -- the Bianchi ultimately felt snappier to me and I liked that -- but the Poprad steel is sooooo smooth...

I think the Lemond is actually much prettier than my Bianchi too ...

Be curious to hear what you think of it...

Your Bianchi looks pretty sweet, seriously... Do you feel minty fresh when you ride on it?

Now that you mention it, yes, it IS a Poprad. I don't see many other people on LeMonds at all, and I've never seen anybody out on a Poprad, so it's exciting somebody else at least thought about it! I picked it because it seemed like a good compromise between the comfortable-yet-tough bike I wanted commuting and the somewhat zippier bike I thought I might want for longer rides. Things I like about it:

1. It has a very smooth ride, thanks to the steel frame and the carbon fork, but it's super tough too. I've hit some tremendous potholes without any trouble.
2. It serves very well as both a commuter and training for longer charity/club rides (STP, here I come!).
3. It's amazingly comfortable even over long distances.
4. My model also has disc brakes, which are totally unnecessary on a road bike, but that do stop outrageously well in wet or yucky weather and they're easier to clean than regular brakes -- less to wipe off. Plus mine lasted 3500 miles or so. (Although the pads cost a fortune to replace, which I didn't know when I went with this one, and I don't know how to do the replacement myself, so having my LBS do it also was expensive. I don't expect to pay in the $100-range every time I need new brakes!)
5. It handles alright; I don't have the best-ever sharp-turning skills, but I've had a few times where I had to swerve sharply to avoid a pothole or something and it took those types of maneuvers well.
6. It's pretty! I admit, I really love having a red bike. It just FEELS faster.

My only complaint with it is that the frame is actually a little too big for me. This isn't the bike's fault, of course I'm on the shorter side (~5'3"), and although I got the smallest size frame, when I got it fitted we still had to make some compromises to get it close to the right fit. For that reason I'd probably go with a women's-specific or smaller-size bike if I was doing it again, just so the fit would be perfect rather than simply good enough. But if it was the right size, I'd highly recommend it for commuting. It's zippy enough but doesn't give up toughness you want.

[hermitclub]

I just started commuting to work last week and it is liberating!!! My commute is 10 miles each way. I've already started stretching the ride in and/or the ride home out longer, schedule permitting. Fortunately I have a great gym and shower at work. My ride is pictured in the gym, where she waits for me while I work.

[HillSlugger]

One of my other bikes is a Sequoia. I prefer the Coda for commuting since it can more easily take racks.

[wackyjacky1]

This is what gets me where I'm goin'. I finally got the handlebar conversion done, and I love it! The moustache bars are so fun, and don't leave my hands in agony after ten minutes like the original straight bars did. I am a happy camper!

[Trek420]

Here's Bradley at work