What the Funk

[Woody]

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Found this whilst rummaging through the internet last night!

Ahhh more pic's of the Forks !! Wonder who owned that frame? The forks must of matched a frame which had the same kind of colour scheme at some point.

 

[Swede]

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I guess newsboy might be able to shed some light on that?

 

[drystonepaul]

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Looking good Chris. Certainly better than the last time I saw it.

Are you going for a black XT build or am just imagining that because of the covetous way you were looking at the black XT chainset you found in my workshop?

EDIT: Just seen the wanted ad in your signature so I guess that's a yes.

 

[Swede]

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Can’t see the Grepper text, so maybe not one of a kind?

 

[Woody]

Ahhh ....good find! The Greeper text was a sticker so that could be them! Thats a later 92 frame, a lot of work went into that paint job ....still not sure I like it though :?

 

[Woody]

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Looking good Chris. Certainly better than the last time I saw it.

Are you going for a black XT build or am just imagining that because of the covetous way you were looking at the black XT chainset you found in my workshop?

EDIT: Just seen the wanted ad in your signature so I guess that's a yes.

Hello there Paul .....I thought you'd left the retro mtb world, are you back for round 2! I managed to get hold of a set of black crank arms mate

 

[Swede]

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Ahhh ....good find! The Greeper text was a sticker so that could be them! Thats a later 92 frame, a lot of work went into that paint job ....still not sure I like it though :?

I did some more digging last night and the paint was offered by the Swiss distributer Sevysa, so not a one off. Interestingly this bike is in Indonesia here, which is where I've found quite a few of Funk's rarer models over the last few weeks. How it got there is anyone's guess! I guess this clears up that little mystery?

The cable stops on the toptube are welded i.e. Durango (>'92) but the two on the seat stay are screwed in i.e. Pro-Comp ('90-'91). The fork almost certainly hasn't been changed, so is this somewhere in the middle i.e. very late '91?

 

[Swede]

Congratulations on the BOTM win!

 

[Woody]

I’ve been so lazy updating this thread with more pics! Thanks for everyone who voted for it in Jan’s botm comp
My vision for it turned out exactly how I wanted it to. This bike gives me all the feels everytime I look at it!

 

[Woody]

I managed to get down to the Malverns Classic festival this year. First time I'd been to this event actually and it was a blast. I took the Funk with me and had it on display at the Retrobike stand for the weekend. I entered it into the "Muc Off Show and shine" competition on the Sunday morning. Despite not making it into the top 10 bikes chosen I think the bike was admired by a lot of people.

Doddy from GMBN seemed to like it from his review of the event (skip to 19m 30s in) :

F**ked up with the brakes .....only fitted them the night before going to the event and I didn't know!