For a little over a year I have soliciting the group for parts for this project and finally it is complete (and when I build a wheelset up with the Wolber rims I am getting, I will have clinchers that will be better, or at least more economical, for riding).
The bike is well within the time line, built circa 1982, but due to the construction and materials, I pre-cleared with the List-Master.
For those who don't know, Charlie Cunningham is one of the pioneers of mountain biking, but unlike a lot of the Marin crew, he wasn't in to the ballooners (converted Schwinns). Instead he started by modifying Gitanes and Peugeots.
Although he mainly built mountain bikes and some cross bikes, he built maybe a dozen road bikes. This bike with built based on Colnago geometry. The bike had something of a hard life and at some point someone took a buffer to the frame, mucking up the welds and leading to the ugly, too shiny look.
Still, I think it cleaned up well.
Charlie is something of a constructeur and while this bike doesn't show all his flourishes, it does have handmade cable stops, fixed angle seatpost, modified Hi-E hubs and the neat seat collar. On the other Cunningham road bike I have, there is a fillet brazed taper fit stem and the forks are built with a custom tubular crown. That bike was ridden by a national team member and and Eddie B hated it. He asked if the owner's father was a plumber and if he had built the bike.
-- Noah J. Gellner New York, NY USA
http://www.cunninghambikes.com http://www.oldschoolmtb.com http://www.topshelfbikes.com
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For a little over a year I have soliciting the group for parts for this project and finally it is complete (and when I build a wheelset up with the Wolber rims I am getting, I will have clinchers that will be better, or at least more economical, for riding).
The bike is well within the time line, built circa 1982, but due to the construction and materials, I pre-cleared with the List-Master.
For those who don't know, Charlie Cunningham is one of the pioneers of mountain biking, but unlike a lot of the Marin crew, he wasn't in to the ballooners (converted Schwinns). Instead he started by modifying Gitanes and Peugeots.
Although he mainly built mountain bikes and some cross bikes, he built maybe a dozen road bikes. This bike with built based on Colnago geometry. The bike had something of a hard life and at some point someone took a buffer to the frame, mucking up the welds and leading to the ugly, too shiny look.
Still, I think it cleaned up well.
Charlie is something of a constructeur and while this bike doesn't show all his flourishes, it does have handmade cable stops, fixed angle seatpost, modified Hi-E hubs and the neat seat collar. On the other Cunningham road bike I have, there is a fillet brazed taper fit stem and the forks are built with a custom tubular crown. That bike was ridden by a national team member and and Eddie B hated it. He asked if the owner's father was a plumber and if he had built the bike.
-- Noah J. Gellner New York, NY USA
http://www.cunninghambikes.com http://www.oldschoolmtb.com http://www.topshelfbikes.com
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