I'm a bike commuter, ~6 miles one-way into Cambridge MA, ~40-min door-to-door. I'm fortunate to have secure bike parking and a shower at work.
My Hunqapillar is setup with Big Bens (559BSD; ~52mm wide), which are terrific over the potholes and debris. I try to take hard-packed dirt trails, and they transition from road-to-trail and back quite well. I have VO ATB fenders to keep me dry. I've used Noodles and bullmoose (non-Bosco), which are setup with cable splitters for easy swaps (takes <10 min). Either are fine, and variety is good... but I think I prefer the Noodles for commuting. There are some stretches where the headwinds can be terrible, and the drop position makes it less unbearable. For luggage, I've moved around from front basket+shop sack to medium saddlesack to small saddlesack and back. I like 'em all! There's no "one way" for me. I think I could go to one bike, if I was willing to use the Hunqapillar through the slush/salt winter roads. (That stuff's brutal on the mechanicals!) All I know is that I love my commute. Happy riding, Shoji On Wednesday, April 9, 2014 6:28:08 AM UTC-4, blakcloud wrote: > > This weeks experiment, well maybe the next two weeks, will be using my Sam > Hillborne as a commuter. I built the bike up as a leisurely Sunday bike to > ride with my wife though I started thinking the bike could do more. > > I was inspired by a thread last year "Could you own one bike?" The answer > for me was no, but I could trim down the number of bikes I own. I want to > minimize and plus I don't have room as I live in a condo and bike parking > has become an issue. > > There hasn't been a lot of talk about using Riv's as commuters on this > board and even Rivendell doesn't seem to push the commuting aspect for > their bikes. The Sam to me, might make a good commuter. My commutes are 60 > minutes each way, so nothing drastic. It is set up with Albatross's and a > Brooks B67, plus the required basket and Mark's rack. The bike currently > has Hetre's but I think I will use a pair of Marathons that I also own. I > will pick up SKS Longboards today and if the experiment works, a new dynamo > front wheel will be built. Ninety five percent of my cycling is commuting > so I really need to like the bike I ride. I am hoping the Sam will fit that > bill. > > > > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
