Aluminum is supposed to be Recycled

There are so many great cliche's that I could use when talking about the original Shit Bike.  The shit bike is like:
-A bad penny that keeps turning up
-A cat with nine lives
-A dung beetle that repeats it's sisyphean behavior
-A comfy pair of sweats that you just can't throw away

Or, you could say it just keeps getting recycled.  It is aluminum, after all.  And gosh darn it, it's a loyal companion that never says no.  Since 2010 when I got it as a shiny, polished alloy Sette Razzo, it's been used and repurposed more times than I can count.  First it served as my only mountain bike.  Then it was relegated to cyclocross service.  Then back to mountain bike duty.  For quite some time it served as a bad weather road bike.  Then back to mountain biking.  However, a couple of years ago it found itself in an interesting niche as a gravel bike, and it's stayed in that capacity.  Kind of an odd gravel bike, but it works really well that way.

Now it's going to be the Beautiful Mrs K's gravel bike.  It's been modified, but it takes it like a champ and it literally costs NO money to swap pieces and parts to make it fit her.  It won't even get a new coat of spray paint because she says she likes the color.  Fair enough: we can ride off into the wild blue yonder together on our spray painted Shit Bikes.