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03-03-2016, 10:26 PM
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Tom Ritchey on Jobst Brandt
I managed to record most of Tom's talk at NAHBS on my iPhone. I missed the first few minutes, at the tail end of which he said, "Jobst Brandt was not a racer, but led rides that racers feared." The recording starts with an explanation of that remark.
 Further in, there was a further interruption of a minute or two... sorry. Otherwise, it's a reasonable audio file. Download here. (~40MB) Moderators: please let me know if this presents any copyright issues, and I'll remove the file. I'm not well versed on such legal matters. 
Last edited by mvrider; 03-04-2016 at 09:10 AM. 
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03-04-2016, 10:19 AM
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Thanks for posting this!
Holy moly, I just spend 45 minutes of time travel into extreme nostalgia. Tom's description of cycling during that period and of the SF Bay Area community was dead-on. "Jobst Rides" were spoken of then with a mix of awe and fear. At the first one that I attended I arrived at Jobst's early, went into the house, and saw what appeared to have been a bike components bomb that had exploded in the living room, dining and kitchen areas. Bike stuff was everywhere. There was a wheel truing stand on the dining room table. I thought, cool!
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03-04-2016, 11:35 AM
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That was a fascinating lecture. Thanks so much for posting it.
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It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that certain je ne sais quoi. --Peter Schickele
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03-04-2016, 01:41 PM
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We don't need no stinkin' gravel bikes!
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03-04-2016, 02:05 PM
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thanks for sharing.
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03-04-2016, 03:25 PM
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Thanks for sharing this!! I caught Ritchey's talk at the last Sac NAHBS 4 years ago, and it was one of the highlights of my time there. I could listen to that man talk about bikes for weeks, years even...
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03-06-2016, 11:15 AM
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Thanks for posting this. I live in Sunnyvale. I'm not from here, but I feel very privileged to live here both for the incredible riding on the peninsula that Jobst loved and to be surrounded by so much of the US bike industry and it's history, including Tom Ritchey and Jobst Brandt.
I never met Jobst, and I'm in no way the natural athlete that he and Tom seem to be, but as I learned about cycling (while living in the midwest) many of his writings (along with Sheldon Brown's) had a big influence on me and helped me understand cycling from engineering, materials, and failure perspectives. I had a chance to fondle Jobst's old bike at the Rivendell picnic this past summer, and that was a very cool experience. This talk, however, brought a lot more depth to Jobst and his impact on everything that happened here. Can't wait for the forthcoming book! For those of you who'd like a fresh dose of Jobst... http://www.sheldonbrown.com/brandt/ http://yarchive.net/bike/
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03-11-2019, 03:45 PM
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I think it’s a great pity that no-one has yet written a biography of Jobst Brandt. Despite his significant contributions to cycling and fascinating personality he is largely unknown, and I don’t mean on the street but in cycling circles! I know he was a maverick and occasionally seen as a renegade by the industry. But he was a huge inspiration to many cyclists in California and far beyond. I’d like to learn more about him and his thoughts than can be gleaned from trawling the web as I have done for years. On another forum it was said that Brandt’s bicycle would end up in museum. Since you saw it (or one of them?) at the Rivendell picnic, maybe you know something about that too?
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