Titiritero
Retro Guru
Advertised in my local classifieds. Made by Staiger, an old but average German brand now under the Accell group
Very strange "Michael Schumacher" bike
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moonlite
Kona Fan
Here's another Schumacher-labelled bike -- a bit more droolworthy
https://www.halmo-automobilia.com/products/colnago-schumacher
https://www.halmo-automobilia.com/products/colnago-schumacher
Titiritero
Retro Guru
Kleinanzeigen in Darmstadt, Germany. It was posted for €800. I was going to add the link but it's gone, so maybe they sold the bike after all...
vtwinvince
Senior Retro Guru
Those wheels are vaguely reminiscent of Honda Comstars.
joglo
Senior Retro Guru
I think Michael Schumacher was a very good figure head for Germany, and I'm allowed to say, I'm German too.
Still I was never a fan of him, but I'm not a formula one fan at all.
Just this bike is really very awful, it looks so awkward at least for me. I also think this was only bought by Michael Schumacher fans or other to me a bit strange guys (sorry, no offense). One in a while one gets on sale, mostly offered for a lot of money, more than technical worth.
Anyway, just wanted to share a bit more background:
The bike was sold very late Nineties and early 2000s.
BTW: Exact same bike, just with different paint and decals was also sold as Big Boy in "Märklin" shops (yes, in model railways shops, maybe same strange target group
)
It wasn't produced by Staiger, but it's from Pacific Cycles.
It was also shown in the PCI museum in Taiwan, at least a few years ago.
The wheelset are Protos, as most other 3-spokes having no advantage to regular wheels.
Same have been also used for the Mercedes Benz folding MTB, maybe that was from PCI too.
The fork, - to me one of the key reasons why I think this bike looks awful, is called Space Frame anti dive and also from PCI.
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/nothin’-new-in-t’-world-linkage-forks.431669/page-3#post-3153498
Still I was never a fan of him, but I'm not a formula one fan at all.
Just this bike is really very awful, it looks so awkward at least for me. I also think this was only bought by Michael Schumacher fans or other to me a bit strange guys (sorry, no offense). One in a while one gets on sale, mostly offered for a lot of money, more than technical worth.
Anyway, just wanted to share a bit more background:
The bike was sold very late Nineties and early 2000s.
BTW: Exact same bike, just with different paint and decals was also sold as Big Boy in "Märklin" shops (yes, in model railways shops, maybe same strange target group
)
It wasn't produced by Staiger, but it's from Pacific Cycles.
It was also shown in the PCI museum in Taiwan, at least a few years ago.
The wheelset are Protos, as most other 3-spokes having no advantage to regular wheels.
Same have been also used for the Mercedes Benz folding MTB, maybe that was from PCI too.
The fork, - to me one of the key reasons why I think this bike looks awful, is called Space Frame anti dive and also from PCI.
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/nothin’-new-in-t’-world-linkage-forks.431669/page-3#post-3153498
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