Love your site and would like to humbly submit my beloved 1980′s Lotus Challenger. I bought this bike for $100.00 from a Craigslist ad to replace the Lotus Classique I purchased new in 1984 and that went by the wayside years ago. So glad to be back in the saddle again. I absolutely love this bike’s performance feel and steel lugged frame. I replaced the seat, bars, brake levers and moved the shifters to the bars. Then I added some Look carbon clip less pedals, a Blackburn rack, some Planet Bike fenders and blinkys and a Cateye cyclometer to turn this old gem into a sleek and sexy street machine. The beauty of this bike for me is that it reminds me of the passion I had for cycling 20 years ago yet draws virtually no interest from thieves! Thinking of some improvements in the future. Among them are: replacing the 27 inch wheels with 700c and performing a 1×9 conversion using track cranks. Cheers to all of the other riders on the site!

—Jim