eBay and Craigslist finds

Yeaps, at the bike shop where I used to spend my time after school in Malacca, Malaysia, we used to get plenty of tourist on these dropping by and stocking tubes and foldables for their next leg of their journey. There was even once when I volunteered to show one of them around Malacca. Quite amused back then by her story of travelling around South East Asia on a bike under the equatorial sun, but now that I am in the UK, I know why sunlight is so precious :)

perfectly normal for a touring/audax bicycle, it give a much bigger range than road gruppo.

here's another example;