My 40 year old Dutch omafiets. I bought it used two years ago and spent the time swapping and upgrading nearly every component. 
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My 42 year old steel road bike. Rebuilt it last year, after not riding it for around 20 years.
Not pictured - upgraded from 6 to 9 speed.
My do-it-all bike (commuter, grocery-getter, gravel tourer)
Not a great angle, but this is my trusty commuter (and only bike....). This past fall I started commuting year round, and am loving it. I abused it a little over the winter with the snow and salt, but it now has a new drivetrain...
I had to did a bit of workaround so I hope it isn't that pixelated...
Mine is on the left, taken just now.
Love the orthlieb bags. And I'm impressed that your kickstands hold the bike up still. Mine cannot hold itself, even with two full side bags
It's not my bike, but yeah I am surprised too that it can hold it. I had to help her readjust it few times when it fall down.
We switched bikes for a bit few days ago and hers bike rides like a tank.
I got a used RadCity 3 last month and really like it. I'm biking more and driving less for errands and commuting.
Rad makes great bikes.
They certainly used to. The quality has started going downhill, unfortunately. I was going to buy a new one (I had a Mission and wanted to upgrade) but the new ones weren't as good and more expensive.
Not thats a workhorse if Ive ever seen one
I can fit so many groceries on it!
My new (used) city bike. Mostly used for the train station and dog running.
Love it!
My commuter / road and training bike after a spring refresh:
The MTB:
I've always wondered: What are these thick tires for? Offroad? Sand or ice? Isn't it tiring to drive on them because of the high friction?
Fat tires excel on all soft surfaces, but they were originally designed specifically for snow. It works the same way as snowshoes - by spreading your weight over a larger area. I ride year-round, and the difference between my two bikes is huge: one has 2.5" wide tires, the other 5.05". The fatbike can handle snowy trails that are difficult to even walk on, and I’ll even let some air out of the tires to make them softer and increase the contact patch even more.
You're absolutely right about the extra friction from the wide tires - it’s like dragging a car tire behind you. That’s why my fatbike has electric assist. Pedaling that thing through soft snow without it would be pure torture. Unless you plan to ride in snow, sand, or mud on a regular basis, a fatbike really doesn’t make much sense.
I've always thought of fat-tire bikes as being the Dodge Ram pickups of the bicycle world. They absolutely have their place and their uses but a lot of people get them because they look cool and "tough".
The amount of fatbikes I see in my city, being ridden on on the road and paved paths, is mindboggling. Even more mindboggling is the incredible road noise coming from their tires as I pass them as their riders struggle to move the damn things without high levels of electric assist. I have also seen several riders fall off their fatbikes as they try to take sharp corners.
There is a place for fatbikes but I don't think a busy urban city is that place.
Many thanks for the great explanation!
They work well on loose surfaces such as sand and gravel, but excel in cities because they are incredibly stable, and cannot get jammed in tram tracks, (legacy) storm drains, or gaps between shifting slabs of concrete. They can also be run at incredibly low pressures.
They do have more resistance than normal tires, but not much more, and the difference is negligible for an ebike :)
This is from last summer. Now rocking a new, wider front tire.
Edit: and here's the other one.
Woo! I just put fenders on mine. I don't have a good picture of them yet, though :)