Manitou FS almost finished
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hagelsturm
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very nice bike..i like
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After cracking it whilst messing around at Mayhem back in 2015 I fell out of love with my Manitou - I don't know why I was surprised it broke after all an Easter Egg has a harder shell than a Manitou Headtube
Upon reflection its not been all that bad over the past four years, The picture below won me Picture of the Month for the theme of Horror or something like that (Still makes me wince when I look at it)
then I got an invite to partake in photo-shoot for a book DK's The Bicycle Book "The Definitive Visual History"
and here it is on pg209 complete with a fooking big crack just above Danson Amp
and then it got stripped and eventually off for Surgery care of the Alchemist Dan Chambers - fast forward three years and I thought I'd put it back together and start to love it again, however some of the parts had been used elsewhere over the ensuing years... Like the tyres
So more tyre were purchased complete with the obligatory white mess that by all accounts is how tyres came 20 years ago - covered in wax / release agent to get them out of the mould :facepalm: only these had more than their fair share
after reading Regans post curing of Tyres that was posted earlier this year viewtopic.php?f=1&t=392821 I thought I'd give it a go whilst the wife was out
here's the first one out the oven
and the matching pair
now I have a rolling chassis I'll get and bolt it back together
After cracking it whilst messing around at Mayhem back in 2015 I fell out of love with my Manitou - I don't know why I was surprised it broke after all an Easter Egg has a harder shell than a Manitou Headtube
Upon reflection its not been all that bad over the past four years, The picture below won me Picture of the Month for the theme of Horror or something like that (Still makes me wince when I look at it)
then I got an invite to partake in photo-shoot for a book DK's The Bicycle Book "The Definitive Visual History"
and here it is on pg209 complete with a fooking big crack just above Danson Amp
and then it got stripped and eventually off for Surgery care of the Alchemist Dan Chambers - fast forward three years and I thought I'd put it back together and start to love it again, however some of the parts had been used elsewhere over the ensuing years... Like the tyres
So more tyre were purchased complete with the obligatory white mess that by all accounts is how tyres came 20 years ago - covered in wax / release agent to get them out of the mould :facepalm: only these had more than their fair share
after reading Regans post curing of Tyres that was posted earlier this year viewtopic.php?f=1&t=392821 I thought I'd give it a go whilst the wife was out
here's the first one out the oven
and the matching pair
now I have a rolling chassis I'll get and bolt it back together
