This is the end...

Sadly, on my way to Rome I discover that my beloved Fat Chance Monster Fat frame has developed a spiral shaped crack close to the bottom bracket. The frame is now almost 20 years old!!! I hesitate to have it welded but then decide to contact the German bicycle maufacturer "Hardo Wagner/Ferrotech" and ask for their support. In record speed they are able to ship a new frame to Berlin were I fly a couple of days later to pick it up together with my girlfriend Susan who will join me cycling in Sardinia and Corsica...
Until then I jerry-rig my old frame with a bandage made out of an old coke can and some duct tighteners and hope that it will still last until Neaples.