A Mondia badged as a "Tour de Suisse" does daily commuter duty. All 531 and as originally equipped when I bought it last summer except I changed the Sugino Mighty Compe cranks to a Mighty Tour triple. Mighty rare equipment on this bike: Sugino Mighty Swiss threaded BB cups.
A Dennis Sparrow (obscure Montana builder) touring bike does the all winter duty with studded tires and then gets 700 X 37 tires for my dirt road rides all summer.
Both bikes have fenders, generator lights and a crust of Pedros Synlube and dirt.
Joe Bender-Zanoni Ann Arbor, MI
At 07:06 PM 6/15/01 -0700, feldmans wrote:
>Let's call these "fallen icons," or something like that.
>What marques of renown are the beater, commuter, utility, etc., bikes of
list members? I have a Helyett that has gone through a number of different
setups from fixed gear to century bike with old Superbe Pro group, about to
become a town bike again. A customer of mine used to have a
Gimondi/Chiorda which a previous owner to him had butchered into a cross
bike including crooked canti studs and Taiwanese hybrid fork. What else is
out there? Inquiring minds want to know.
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>David Feldman