If you’ll be doing any hills get another bike with more gearing. No hills your bike will do ok. Add a panniers set-up to the rear.
edhitchon1993 on
What’s the current setup (brakes, racks, fenders)? What sort of riding is your commute (hills, path surface, how common is broken glass etc.)? What condition is the bike currently in (brand new, pulled out of a garage after 20 years, pulled out of a hedge after a decade)?
WillBottomForBanana on
If you want to go faster, or easier up hills you are in a tight spot.
With out brakes I think all bets are off.
Can’t tell from pics, but these bikes are rarely made so that they could be upgraded to multi speed.
Easiest solution would be an internal gear hub. And that would not be especially easy or cheap.
Better tires would help a little.
Getting a different bike would be an easier, and potentially cheaper, solution than trying to get gears on this thing.
IF you mean an E bike conversion. Then I guess a front tire swap would be possible? But that makes the brakes situation worse.
A left pedal might also help.
ICNR2_FIERRERO_ARG on
CLARIFICATION: THE MODIFICATIONS I WANT YOU TO PUT ARE TO MAKE IT FASTER ON PAVEMENT-ROAD!
International-Youth7 on
Typically you’d want it to roll more
YoSupWeirdos on
a good set of tires maybe? less rolling resistance/ whatever else
CokeCanNinja on
Not much you can do with that except upgrade the tires, and even that might be difficult to find premium tires if they’re an odd size. The biggest benefits will come from riding it more and improving your fitness. A single speed like that won’t spin out until about 20+ mph, if you need more than that you could put on a smaller rear cog but it’ll make climbing hills harder.
deanmc on
Pedals?
Jeanschyso1 on
The first thing I would add is fenders, followed by a bike lock attachment, and a rack in the back. Probably gonna need some jank solution for that because it doesn’t look like it’s made for carrying shit.
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Runs more what?
If you’ll be doing any hills get another bike with more gearing. No hills your bike will do ok. Add a panniers set-up to the rear.
What’s the current setup (brakes, racks, fenders)? What sort of riding is your commute (hills, path surface, how common is broken glass etc.)? What condition is the bike currently in (brand new, pulled out of a garage after 20 years, pulled out of a hedge after a decade)?
If you want to go faster, or easier up hills you are in a tight spot.
With out brakes I think all bets are off.
Can’t tell from pics, but these bikes are rarely made so that they could be upgraded to multi speed.
Easiest solution would be an internal gear hub. And that would not be especially easy or cheap.
Better tires would help a little.
Getting a different bike would be an easier, and potentially cheaper, solution than trying to get gears on this thing.
IF you mean an E bike conversion. Then I guess a front tire swap would be possible? But that makes the brakes situation worse.
A left pedal might also help.
CLARIFICATION: THE MODIFICATIONS I WANT YOU TO PUT ARE TO MAKE IT FASTER ON PAVEMENT-ROAD!
Typically you’d want it to roll more
a good set of tires maybe? less rolling resistance/ whatever else
Not much you can do with that except upgrade the tires, and even that might be difficult to find premium tires if they’re an odd size. The biggest benefits will come from riding it more and improving your fitness. A single speed like that won’t spin out until about 20+ mph, if you need more than that you could put on a smaller rear cog but it’ll make climbing hills harder.
Pedals?
The first thing I would add is fenders, followed by a bike lock attachment, and a rack in the back. Probably gonna need some jank solution for that because it doesn’t look like it’s made for carrying shit.
pedals