Recent content by manuelschafer

still looking for one of those lovely king ring-drive rears in silver

Hi Chefs, if you know someone or have yourself a single spare tandem or whatever spaced rear hub, pls get in touch. iv got the obligatory 140mm spacer for my frame so you can either keep whatever spacer you have or include it, just as you like. iam willing to entertain both the older or newer...

Superb, can you share who made decals and painjob at what cost approx .. otherwise we continue our pm ;)

Magura alloy trials, searching for that term you will find them mentioned in C.K. and G.F. MTBikes as well as the 1982 Mombat timeline :)

Happy to add the drawing of these two adjustable CC-SP designs here... its been a while researching these :) Infact the design got mentioned already in #10 by CC own words. Charlie concludes there then, saying he went ahead with only the fixed angle construcitons due to extensive long term...

@Retro_Roy How do you like shifting the index Suntour with that friction Deerhead RD ? edit, so you switched to suntours late semi-friciton mode,.. thnx for your time to answer

also late to see this, but as the story goes ... .. those early endless bands were only offered by shimano on their z series line + officially inofficial there was a 600 fd with band type but super rare.. spoke with the seller of your pictured m700 (non alpine) fd and its unlikely to be...

and how old can be made new again, (credits to TD of the V mtb W)

then you have 2 variants of what else was put on bikes depending on customers preference,

time for some more pics, def. CC did so much more than s.posts but none the less it was his first step into the bike business before he became sought after for his frames. here are 2 examples of what charlie fabed up before the brilliant "fasp" design fotos are of the f.book depts n archives...

Super rad thread and brilliant in the way that the Fervor was holding up with even a Z1 or was it the = Z2, Greetings from another Fervor ride.

Nice detail info considered here, for sure the red is unique among them..

Cool to see you upload one of the interviews, here is the B.Q. with J.H. and THE CUNNINGHAMS :) ..feel free to upload aswell

"Guy" is Wes Williams of Willits and previously Ibis Cycles. He rode a Ritchey with Potts fork early on and then his own custom Ibis from 85 onwards

:)some old seatpost related material forwarded by JP, in the before post there is a writedown of a late Charlie post made for a friend of his 10 years ago by now and then another note (20 year older or lets even say 30 years old now) explaining why he had stopped making "just" custom seatposts...