Cc 2015 (the accident story) im Album #a) B2 Wtb Phoenix SE (Proto DIA & Cunningham O Potts - MtnTrans Team Trailmaster Archive)🔧🔗

Charlie Cunningham was riding by himself on Azalea Hill in Fairfax above the Meadow Club Golf Course when he crashed.

“He has no idea how he fell, whether he was hit by a hit-and-run driver or what,” said Jacquie Phelan, his wife and fellow Mountain Bike Hall of Famer. With broken bones and head trauma, Cunningham used his bike as a cane and made it to the parking lot, where he flagged down a motorist who drove him home, Phelan said. He was then taken to the hospital, where he stayed three days.

Six weeks later he developed a subdural hematoma, a life-threatening condition necessitating emergency brain surgery, and returned to the hospital,.....

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Besides the sad story, here you see charlies beloved XC Bike finally but only partially upgraded to modified indexed shifting. As often seen on his personal Bikes left and right are different, so here for changing front chain rings a friction shifter remained in remembrance of the original build and "builddate"