Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

my beloved tourer, photo by a friend of mine:

more here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikrophon/7440044402/in/photostream/

Awesome!

My recent build - mainly from the bits box, initially inspired by a summer riding to work and back along the canal....now a winter hack:

my commuter, vegetable shop picker upper and touring bike ... jack taylor tourist.

never seen a more perfect mountain bike than that silver muddy roberts with v-brakes, above..

http://s12.postimage.org/xiozz91a5/IMG_3935.jpg

very posh commuter.

Salsa Fargo; build & first ride.... - YouTube

I decided ages ago that a Roughstuff would be my next bike. Only with rim brakes (and lugged forks), drop bars, no hub light and no couplers.

And of course in a more fitting size.

Salsa Fargo; build & first ride.... - YouTube

Quite a shame that Salsa can't send the Fargo out with pre-faced disc mounts. Or maybe they do and he's just being overly cautious.

inspirational - like them pacenti crowns too.

Tyres need to be fatter.

Aren't they at least 30mm? Regardless, they'd look fine dressed in a decent set of fenders.

Tyres need to be fatter.

You are edscoble & I claim my 5 pounds.

^^^^any ideas on that crank set? is it an older style 105?

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inspirational - like them pacenti crowns too.

Exactly what I have on both my fixed wheel and custom randonneur, of course the fixed wheel one have a massive gap between the crown and 32c tyres.

Racks really aren't level (and are ugly as sin!)

They look like those alu cheapo one you get from any bike shop, my dad broke two of them before resorting to a Tubus one.

Tortecs, SJSC sells 'em.

Other than not being level, nowt wrong with the rear rack, have the same one on my Kaffenback - solid & strong.

^ Nice! I like the modified front guard.

It look like he got a lots of room in the saddlebag for the tent/thermarest.

^ Want!