Oh no, sad news: Charlie Cunningham passed away. https://www.renehersecycles.com/we-miss-you-charlie-cunningham/
I have one of his Grease Guard headsets and postcard, signed by him and Jacquie Phelan, from when Jacquie was doing a fundraiser for Charlie's care back in 2022.
Oi...z!
That was fast! A prototype appeared only 2 weeks back at the Nove Mesto XCO Worldcup and today it already is officially launched - the all new Orbea Oiz.
Heute dann aufs 🚴♂️ und in den #triglavnationalpark. Herrlich! Das ist eine absolute Fahrradempfehlung. Generell gibt es hier rund um #Bled großartige Fahrradinfrastruktur. Strecken sind gut ausgeschildert und ausgebaut.
#triglavnationalpark #Bled #slovenia #draussenmensch #bikelife #orbearise #mtb #getoutandbike #fedibikes #bikeaddict #rausgeschafft
Ich verweise hier nur ungern auf meine Angebote in Verkaufsportalen, aber heute mal eine Ausnahme mit meinem #Mountainbike mit Titanrahmen. Preisvorschläge sind möglich. Es tummeln sich hier ja viele Menschen, die alte Sachen schätzen. Das hier ist nicht billig, aber gut.
Das #MTB hat mich 7 Jahre oft begleitet, nun nutze ich es aber seit 25 Jahren fast nicht mehr. Wer sich schon mal für #Titanrahmen interessiert hat, der weiß was hier geboten wird.
Sad news on world bicycle day.
Ride in peace, Charlie Cunningham. Legendary framebuilder, inventor, and innovator Charlie Cunningham has passed. News spread through the vintage mountain bike community this morning, with Charlie Kelly posting to his Facebook. Cunningham was living in a care home after an accident on Fairfax-Bolinas Road in 2015 while riding a bike he'd just built for Jacquie Phelan. Afterward, he was never the same, lacking a sense of direction, and he lost much of his vision, but he was walking and speaking normally. His passing this morning has shaken the Fairfax community. There's a GoFundMe still active from that incident, with all…
The great enstrippening has begun!
All that's left on my beloved Kona are the parts I can't get off because, being the damned fool I am, I left it down the side of the house for two years. Yeah, the post be rusty. Oh, and I don't have a way to get the headset cups out without doing some damage to either the frame or whatever I'm resting the frame on. So I'll get it in a vice at work and do it there.
After everything is off, my buddy the paint shop manager is going to get it shotblasted, resprayed, and lacquered. The only downside is that when I do finally manage to source some replacement decals, I'll have to get them lacquered over again. But the one guy I found who can recreate them wants something like £50, which I can't really justify. I can probably recreate them myself, and get them printed up by a firm we use for decals and signs, but it'll take me a while to do.
After that, I'm going to fabricate a bracket to mount to the disc mount I welded to the frame so I can use a more modern post-mounted disc brake. I can possibly get something machined at work from aluminium, but more likely I'll bust out my old welding skills and knock something up from steel.
Soon she'll be back on the trails!
#InEigenerSache
Noch etwas mehr als ein Tag, dann wird ein #VOTEC M6 #ENDURO #MTB in Größe L bei #ebay enden. Derzeit sind 63 € aufgerufen.
Das Geld vom Endgebot, wird zu 100% an ein Fahrradprojekt (noch nicht ausgesucht) gespendet.
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