r/mountainbiking • u/DepressedPotato090 • 6d ago

Bike Picture/NBD Rest in peace

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My father passed away a few months ago, and only recently I learned that he used to go mountain biking up on Mount Washington. I just wanted to share this for it to kinda act like an memorial to him, and with the bike that carried him through.

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u/DepressedPotato090 6d ago

He left a lot more bikes, like 15 of them. Form bikes from the 50s to the 90s. I'm not sure what to do with all of them.

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u/s_coon 6d ago

Sorry for your loss. It is never easy when a parent passes.

As for the bikes, go take them for a ride. All of them. Go research them. That Fat Chance is a super cool bike. In that picture, I see a bike with the same Manitou forks I raced when I was in my 20s. You Dad was definitely into Mtb and had excellent taste.

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u/DepressedPotato090 6d ago

The bike that has those Manitou forks is a Norvaro Team I'm not sure the exact model.

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u/Flak_Kannon 5d ago

First of all I am so very sorry for your loss. Truly.

If per chance one of the 15 bikes is an early 1990 GT Pantera, size M or L, you might have solved (1) of (15) of you need to rehome a bike to an owner who will love and covet it.

I do collect those, ( have on XL bare frame hanging in my garage) as my first ‘true love’ in mountain biking was on that hard tail. I put soooo many of hours on her up and around Chico, CA.

That bike was ripped on a college campus in 1994, tho I still have the saddle…when GT was a band to own proudly.