Here's my commuter/joy riding bike - a Santana Moda. I don't have much info about these bikes but I believe Santana made mountain bikes for a short time in the 80's. Its made from Columbus Max OR steel tubing. The tubing is oversized with oriented elliptical cross-sections. In some places its as pretty thin (0.5-0.6 mm) so its banged up from spills and hits from riding in NYC and New Orleans but still going strong. I just moved from NYC to Boston so it hasn't been on the road in a couple months. I'm cleaning it up this week and getting it back on the road for commuting to work. My winter project may be to strip it down for powdercoating.







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