This is an old REI mountain bike from the late 80’s. I bought it off of Craigslist, and did a quick chop and paint job just as a styling exercise when Burd and I were trying to decide how to paint his folding bike. My plan had been to sell it, cheap, after showing Burd how a black frame would look.
But, I ended up liking it so much, I kept it. The big tires can go 2 or 3 weeks without getting aired up, if you over-inflate them to start with. So, it became the bike I kept by the front door for errands and going to the coffee shop. Hence, the name.
I ended up regearing it and using it as a fixed mountain bike, for a while, as immortalized on my Blog under the entry entitled “Su, Su, Suzue Goodbye”. The frame was actually a little small, and I destroyed the original rear hub in Fruita, so I put it back together as a commuter/coffee bike and use it as I originally did.
I put Ritchey Moby Bite tires on it. With the upside-down handlebars it emulates the look of 1920’s board-track racing motorcycles, and I think it looks pretty cool. Heavy though, at 30 pounds. About the heaviest bike I’ve ever owned.
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