# The official Tarckbike "Is my Rawland Nordavinden cracked?" and general nerdavinden rememberance, celebration, and storytime thread.
**URL:** https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028
**Category:** Bikes
**Created:** [July 21, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028 "2026-07-21T00:53:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@kmcdon](https://tarck.cc/u/kmcdon)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 12:53am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/1 "2026-07-21T00:53:50Z")
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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### Author:  [@kmcdon](https://tarck.cc/u/kmcdon)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 12:54am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/2 "2026-07-21T00:54:48Z")
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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### Author:  [@Blakey](https://tarck.cc/u/Blakey)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 12:59am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/3 "2026-07-21T00:59:40Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@kmcdon](https://tarck.cc/u/kmcdon)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 1:32am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/5 "2026-07-21T01:32:52Z")
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
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### Author:  [@Horse\_Mafia](https://tarck.cc/u/Horse_Mafia)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 1:53am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/8 "2026-07-21T01:53:46Z")
idk dude seems like a standup guy who couldn’t figure out how to run a bike biz on the side
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### Author:  [@BicyclePears](https://tarck.cc/u/BicyclePears)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 1:59am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/9 "2026-07-21T01:59:57Z")
Might be true and I’m probably being too mean.
Edit: yeah too mean. Withdrawn.
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### Author:  [@frank\_doktor](https://tarck.cc/u/frank_doktor)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 2:21am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/10 "2026-07-21T02:21:35Z")
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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### Author:  [@Master\_Stabby](https://tarck.cc/u/Master_Stabby)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 2:27am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/11 "2026-07-21T02:27:20Z")
living that trainer life
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### Author:  [@BicyclePears](https://tarck.cc/u/BicyclePears)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 2:36am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/12 "2026-07-21T02:36:18Z")
> [@frank\_doktor](#):
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> Shut your pubes mouth
I already did!
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### Author:  [@thurston](https://tarck.cc/u/thurston)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 3:49am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/13 "2026-07-21T03:49:00Z")
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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### Author:  [@LASER\_BEIGE](https://tarck.cc/u/LASER_BEIGE)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 4:44am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/14 "2026-07-21T04:44:37Z")
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
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### Author:  [@LASER\_BEIGE](https://tarck.cc/u/LASER_BEIGE)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/15 "2026-07-21T04:45:45Z")
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
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### Author:  [@LASER\_BEIGE](https://tarck.cc/u/LASER_BEIGE)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 4:50am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/16 "2026-07-21T04:50:17Z")
Approximately here
> [@Bike blog thread](https://tarck.cc/t/bike-blog-thread/19001/11217):
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> Ok I will In this thread or r u gonna start a new one
I haven’t changed much
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### Author:  [@goose\_value\_69](https://tarck.cc/u/goose_value_69)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 5:54am UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/17 "2026-07-21T05:54:36Z")
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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### Author:  [@kmcdon](https://tarck.cc/u/kmcdon)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 2:14pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/18 "2026-07-21T14:14:20Z")
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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### Author:  [@Dr\_Jart\_Attack\_PhD](https://tarck.cc/u/Dr_Jart_Attack_PhD)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 2:41pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/19 "2026-07-21T14:41:40Z")
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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### Author:  [@Horse\_Mafia](https://tarck.cc/u/Horse_Mafia)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/20 "2026-07-21T15:23:29Z")
I CAT6ed a nordavinden on my space horse once
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### Author:  [@Euphorbia](https://tarck.cc/u/Euphorbia)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 4:21pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/21 "2026-07-21T16:21:23Z")
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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### Author:  [@Euphorbia](https://tarck.cc/u/Euphorbia)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 4:22pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/22 "2026-07-21T16:22:48Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Horse\_Mafia](https://tarck.cc/u/Horse_Mafia)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://tarck.cc/t/the-official-tarckbike-is-my-rawland-nordavinden-cracked-and-general-nerdavinden-rememberance-celebration-and-storytime-thread/29028/23 "2026-07-21T16:39:57Z")
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