So I decided the flaming surly was a bit nice to be my commuter or beater bike and picked up an old Trek 800 from craigslist. It was a nice purple with an orange border around the trek lettering. A little beat up, hence the name Scar, but good bones. Scar got new tires from Sweetskinz which are reflective at night, a new seatpost (the original trek steel one weighed a ton), a rack (needs to be adjusted a little still once I get it off the trainer, trainer's interfering with putting the back of it on right), and a bottle cage. I changed the handlebars to some old mountain biking ones that are more touring shaped for more handlebar positions, and switched the rear cassette to 8 speed and changed the shifters to some old deore LX ones I had (the cabling still needs to be finished). I probably shoulda cleaned up the clutter around him.

So here Scar is in all his "Glory" All I can say is noone will ever steal Scar, they'd be too embarassed to ride him.











Here's some pics at night with the flash so you can see how reflective the tires are: