I honestly can’t tell if it’s just a paint thing or not but it’s not looking too great.
It’s a good opportunity to lightheartedly argue about it on the internet and/or post pictures of your old nordavinden and nordavinden stories.
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I think I’m just going to mark the extents of it with a marker and then continue to YOLO it for the time being.
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good plan.
wish I had a nerdavinden, but couldn’t justify it at the time. best i can do is an rSogn with flatbars and some very old Hetres that lives on a hook.
i knew there was some shithead behavior going on but i haven’t even thought about the brand for years. i guess i just thought it was totally dead and defunct at this point
idk dude seems like a standup guy who couldn’t figure out how to run a bike biz on the side
Might be true and I’m probably being too mean.
Edit: yeah too mean. Withdrawn.
Shut your pubes mouth, the Nordavinden was a sick bike. I couldn’t give two fucks about the douche owner. I know they were terrible, but I got my frame cheap, rode it some, built up the TB-14 tarck bear editions for it, and then sold it to dumpsterlife after I got the coffeegrinder. Then missed the wigglebikelyfe a bit.
Orc rack could carry a printer
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I already did!
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I never bonded with mine, but didn’t embrace the front rack/rando bag. Sold it. Regretted it, bought my Grizl with the proceeds
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I once saw this guy with like 10cm of spacers, a 100 stem and a 0 setback Thomson with a brooks on a nerdavinden
I wanted to take a photo of it and post it to the internet of bad bike fits but I just felt bad to yuck someone’s yum
Also went to a new bike introduction at Velo cult where the announcement was made in sign language
Except that time I did post it to the internet
Approximately here
I haven’t changed much
a bad fit is never yum (to include my own indiscretions, attached)
Probably the only bike I would ever describe riding as, “a hoot.”
Edit: @Emor_please graciously let me test ride his while he was at work. Had a blast, bought this one. Rode a bunch, got into racing, sold it to make room.
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i was late to the party as usual and got mine after the happening. ended up getting my frame for something like $500 NIB from some obscure bike shop on the internet. apparently it had just been sitting in the back of the warehouse for several years at that point.
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Can’t remember if @Emor_please broke both of his frames or if he is still riding his replacement (which I remember being a story as well). I think he liked it quite a lot but I always understood it was not a bike for me after that lol
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I CAT6ed a nordavinden on my space horse once
Guy in his 70s does a lap around my neighborhood on one with a mile of spacers on it and a front bag almost tall enough to fit a whole baguette in…. Though the last time I saw him he was on a much dumber ti thing with electronic shifters and 40mm tires. Looked like a boutique Salsa. Made me sad.
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Isn’t there a trope where old enemies become friends as the world passes them by and both their positions become obsolete and irrelevant. They bond over their fear of being forgotten and shit.
