Getting to Know Matti

[Ulu]

Yeah, I can’t believe that seat post is backwards. What a dummy!!

Short arms.

 

[Ulu]

No.
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Put down the wrenches. Walk away.

Jack breaks his Chinese chain breaker.
Becoming a flaky chain faker,
Jack jacks the derailleur
Above point of failure,
And bites the goose neck a bit later.

 

[Ulu]

Hmmmm… That didn’t work very well.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Omigawd omigawd omigawd Charlie Kelly got the Fat Tire Flyer online! Here's the link to 26 issues of what he claims to be the first mountain bike magazine ever produced!

https://fattireflyer.com/category/ftf/

 

[markthatcher1]

Very cool Matti. I’m a third of the way through Charlie’s book…aka Fat Tire Flyer. Those guys where animals . I say that, hat in hand.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Matti is enjoying an irony taco today

Hard shell

 

[Ulu]

Oh crap! So what did you hit?

 

[ingola]

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Hard shell

Nothing it's just his mind

 

[Ulu]

Last time I tuned in he was heading out into the snow on slick tires.
2+2=taco

 

[One-eyed Sailor]

Annoying level stabilized. lol

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Oh crap! So what did you hit?

Just disassembling a curb find. I was amused by it being bent that badly, but named "Rigida". 90s hardware store junk bike parts

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Huh. 10,000 posts. A time for considering my time here, deep thoughts, a pause from the smoke and the haze to think on what has passed over the last four years. I wanted to scribe a heartfelt post reflecting upon the people I've met, things I've learned, bikes I've liked. Then I saw a picture that summed it all up, a dashing clown having fun on the wrong bike.

Kinda sums it all up. Hopefully I didn't leave you lying in my wake. Keep it rolling, folks, I'll keep on laughing

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Whoops, miscounted. That's 9999. This is 10,000. Typical attention to detail for Matti

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Moved here to keep ingola's thread on the rails:

Odds are, it will happen today. Congrats @MattiThundrrr

That'll gross him right out

Toe-thumbs up!

Ewww somehow it's wearing something. I thought it was a medical apparatus, extra grossnesses!

 

[BobbyStillz]

Ewww somehow it's wearing something. I thought it was a medical apparatus, extra grossnesses!

How DARE you! That's my best dress shirt.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

The Captain! Obviously the best, would you board a ship Shatner was in charge of?

 

[BobbyStillz]

The Captain! Obviously the best, would you board a ship Shatner was in charge of?

Survey says...

 

[68z27]

No.
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Put down the wrenches. Walk away.

The direction some of these threads turn so quickly that sometimes I have to just stop.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

The direction some of these threads turn so quickly that sometimes I have to just stop.
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Ooooh, funked up roller cams! You might be able to stop...
Eventually

But now you got me all curious about the bike it's attached to

 

[68z27]

Ooooh, funked up roller cams! You might be able to stop...
Eventually

But now you got me all curious about the bike it's attached to

Brakes: I've had good luck with them in the mud and slime of north FL. If anybody is throwing away any parts for 'em......

Frame: 80s when it started out as a CrMo Cunningham designed Nishiki that met up with a car. Front fork and triangle rebuilt with double butted CrMo tubes: a higher bottom brkt for increased ground clearance and laid back seat tube: more like a touring bike. It became my go-to camping, expedition, etc bike.