Work bikes

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

My 'new' work bike! A Giant Coldrock from 1990 (I think). I could not resist partly due to memories of a friend owning a Coldrock BITD and also because it was just £5 as the bike needed plenty of work to bring back to life. My initial thinking was to transfer the 3-speed Sturmey set-up from the old work bike but then realised that would be a bit of a faff as the Giant frame is not really hub gear compatible due to the strangely short 'infilled' rear dropouts. Also I did not wish to start bending & hacking this decent frame about, this means I am back to derailleur gears for work once again... I set the bike up as a 14-speed mainly using parts from my home supplies. The gear shifter is a budget Shimano 6-speed thumb- shifter which works over 7-speeds acceptably. The front shifter is a Regina double which is works pretty well. The saddle looks awful fitted to this bike and will probably be changed. I really like the horizontal top tube and graphics on this long limo of a bike. The stem is very upright and definitely needed as the front end of the bike is low for a 20" frame. The bike rides really well and I like it! Another bonus is that the killer of a hill on the commute home is made easier with all the extra gears!
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I like that, cool paint job.

 

[grantoury]

My old commuter, now a transport bicycle, a 2004 Kona Smoke.

 

[KayOs]

My old commuter, now a transport bicycle, a 2004 Kona Smoke.
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I could puke, all the good things don't exist in Germany. ******* car nation.

 

[grantoury]

I could puke, all the good things don't exist in Germany. ******* car nation.View attachment 774305

Funny coincidence, I bought the frame at cnc-bike.de, the fork at rose.de and the xtracycle kit at what used to be the planet used webshop. I get a lot of my cycling material in Germany. It is still a bigger market than the Netherlands...

 

[KayOs]

Funny coincidence, I bought the frame at cnc-bike.de, the fork at rose.de and the xtracycle kit at what used to be the planet used webshop. I get a lot of my cycling material in Germany. It is still a bigger market than the Netherlands...

What? Impossible!
Need to search further....

 

[Spankyfart]

@grantoury Is that just an added extension or did you weld the rear bit.

 

[grantoury]

@grantoury Is that just an added extension or did you weld the rear bit.

It was a kit by Xtracycle. It bolts into the rear fork. The Surly big Dummy was based on that geometry. They are no longer available.

 

[nstarmore]

So annoying that you can't buy Xtracycle kits anymore, fancied one for years, then fancied a Big Dummy and by the time I could afford one they stopped doing them as well

 

[grantoury]

So annoying that you can't buy Xtracycle kits anymore, fancied one for years, then fancied a Big Dummy and by the time I could afford one they stopped doing them as well

As far as I know, they still make Big Dummies.

 

[nstarmore]

As far as I know, they still make Big Dummies.

I believe they do but they stopped sending them over the pond a while back