The Mystery of Tom Pritchard’s Bike
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The Mystery of Tom Pritchard’s Bike
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#2What a great story and an amazing person. It's always nice to read about someone who was genuinely a good person. I especially liked the quote: “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived that distinguish one man from another.”
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#3What a great story and an amazing person. It's always nice to read about someone who was genuinely a good person. I especially liked the quote: “Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived that distinguish one man from another.”
Fully agree. What an amazing read :)
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#4As to the significance of "5826 D.B.T. 1976", it appears that it stands for Denver Bicycle Tax. This is probably why the author tried phoning the Denver police and then the oldest bike shop in Denver.
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#5This is a really wonderful story. For anyone like me who's reading the comments but doesn't care at all about bikes: read the story, Tom Pritchard sounds like a great man.
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#6What a great man and what great storytelling. Thank you for sharing.
I happen to have an Eisentraut ‘Limited’ of similar vintage. I bought it off of a retired aerospace engineer a decade ago. It's equipped with the same classic Campagnola and while the frame is a little tall for me I still get great pleasure in riding it around town. It is beautifully made, very light, and a piece of art.
Not mentioned in the story but Albert Eisentraut was building his bicycles in Oakland.
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#7What a great man and what great storytelling. Thank you for sharing. I happen to have an Eisentraut ‘Limited’ of similar vintage. I bought it off of a retired aerospace engineer a decade ago. It's equipped with the same classic Campagnola and while the frame is a little tall for me I still get great pleasure in riding it around town. It is beautifully made, very light, and a piece of art. Not mentioned in the story b…
A couple old photos I dug up off my social media accounts:
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#8Many, if not all, lives are as rich as this and would benefit from as romantic a retelling.
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#9Many, if not all, lives are as rich as this and would benefit from as romantic a retelling.
I think that's a bit unfair. Most Americans for example haven't even left the country(and many, their state), much less try and smuggle hash into Spain.
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#10Here's the piece he wrote on Tom
https://www.tampabay.com/archive/2009/01/11/moose-and-the-my...