1992 FUNK Combat Titanium - The elitist Elevated Unicorn Owners Club
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Spoke to Daryl last night and the serial number in his opinion was added "by others". Maybe Sevysa, maybe Blaser Velowerkstatt but not by him.
He can't remember how many were produced but the number is low. He doesn't know where the number 19 came from but he can't remember. @newsboy, can you help/advise?
As is often the case we jumped around topics quite a bit and unfortunately I didn't get any info on the font or shims but I did get this bit of new Funk lore...
He told me that he and Paolo Salvagione had built the Combat (the one in the Sevysa advert?) and had taken it to Eurobike and he thought it was then sold to a high end bike shop in Frankfurt. He said that Paolo "...has been working with the Queen designing and building the worlds largest clock", which is an interesting statement! I had a quick look online and found quit a bit on Mr Salvagione;
https://longnow.org/people/paolo/
https://salvagione.com/bio/
The bio is interesting as in 1993 he was working for/at Swift Cycles which would have been after his interaction with Daryl on this. Couldn't find much on Swift Cycles but I did find this;
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1995-swift-ordinary-fixed-gear-mountain-bike.344023/
I've sent him an email - cross your fingers...
He can't remember how many were produced but the number is low. He doesn't know where the number 19 came from but he can't remember. @newsboy, can you help/advise?
As is often the case we jumped around topics quite a bit and unfortunately I didn't get any info on the font or shims but I did get this bit of new Funk lore...
He told me that he and Paolo Salvagione had built the Combat (the one in the Sevysa advert?) and had taken it to Eurobike and he thought it was then sold to a high end bike shop in Frankfurt. He said that Paolo "...has been working with the Queen designing and building the worlds largest clock", which is an interesting statement! I had a quick look online and found quit a bit on Mr Salvagione;
https://longnow.org/people/paolo/
https://salvagione.com/bio/
The bio is interesting as in 1993 he was working for/at Swift Cycles which would have been after his interaction with Daryl on this. Couldn't find much on Swift Cycles but I did find this;
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/1995-swift-ordinary-fixed-gear-mountain-bike.344023/
I've sent him an email - cross your fingers...
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fguki
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Superb info, so far. Thank you very much!
Meanwhile, I have completed the 3rd FUNK decal design, too. For the Suspension fork II for example. Always looks a little weird in the software pictures but its super accurate on any frontal picture I put it over. Of course I took possible bendings and perspective mistakes in consideration while designing it. As soon as I plotted out the first set and put it over the original on my fork, I can do the last tweeking and finalize it forever.
Still need to put it to the correct total size. I am on vacation this week so I dont have the correct size at hand. The fork is home in my workshop. But I can consider this: done!
Meanwhile, I have completed the 3rd FUNK decal design, too. For the Suspension fork II for example. Always looks a little weird in the software pictures but its super accurate on any frontal picture I put it over. Of course I took possible bendings and perspective mistakes in consideration while designing it. As soon as I plotted out the first set and put it over the original on my fork, I can do the last tweeking and finalize it forever.
Still need to put it to the correct total size. I am on vacation this week so I dont have the correct size at hand. The fork is home in my workshop. But I can consider this: done!
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