I will spin your head off so fast it will collect its own atmosphere... with gravity!

Now lets once again travel back in time in this long, colorful transformation of my 1978 Columbia Commuter. This bike has had at least 8 owners that I know of, 4 of whom were previously in the MF, and one special one whom was a crackhead. He stole it and had possession for a year before it was recovered. It was kind of him to paint it poorly with house paint, put wood screws all over, and removed the sidecovers and rear rack and fender. He was last the last owner before me.

At one point it donned a set off bullhorns over the head light, with fur scattered about the frame. Then just a uni-horn, and now, only scraps of fur have survived. I hauled ass on this bike the entire Trick or Treat, Creature rally in 2006 with an Athena 70cc piston port kit. I loaned it to Motion Left member Topher who proceeded to put a hard 200 bunnyhopping miles on this bike at Flock Yeah 1 i nLA. It has been a loaner to more people than I can count.

It has had a hard life indeed. Yet I have officially cleaned the carb once, it ALWAYS starts, is sometimes really scary to ride, and been crashed multiple times. I deduce this bike has been painted approximately 10 times, always while completely assembled. The Columbia is unstoppable. See for yourself.

Here is it as of last night.

SPECS:
Magnum forks

long rear struts

14" Puch Dart rear wheel

stock cylinder/carb/whatever

Gianelli exhaust

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31mph of awesome tall

For some reason some one really wanted to name it Gador Dog. I think it was Bradley Johnsen.

Safety Orange was a good look.

"This is and racing stripe!"

Here is the oldest photo of the bike, from Blood Drive 1, 2003, long before I owned it. (The red one being ridden on the left.) So sad, it was nice once...

And just for reference, this is what it originally started as: