Ritchey Road Team
Staying with the Ritchey theme this week, it’s a little known fact that Ritchey was very involved in the U.S. road scene in the early ‘90’s, and had a bad-ass road team, as well as sponsoring a couple others (more on those soon). That’s right, 10-speed racers. This one came about though a call from […]
Thomas Frischknect’s First Day in America
Here is Thomas Frischknect on his first day in America, March 1990. As the team manager, I had all his new Team Ritchey bikes and kit laid out and ready for him. As soon as Thomas saw all the swag he jumped into his kit and posed for this shot like a pig in shit. […]
Ritchey NAHBS 2016
Ritchey brought several California-built bikes to NAHBS this year, all sporting the $450 “heritage” paint option (done by Rick at D&D Cycles in San Lorenzo, California). Love this camo paint–like the 80s Ritchey Commando. Check out the snow camo and orange/yellow fade after the jump!
MTB Restorations NAHBS 2016
I had a late 80s/early 90s flashback in this booth. More old school Yetis, Ritcheys, Breezers and Fat Chances after the jump!
Ritchey Commando
This is probably my favorite Ritchey and one of my favorites mtbs of all time. I used to sell them at Palo Alto Bicycles back in the mid-80s. Just so cool… I stole the pic from socketsetcycles. You can find more pics of these rare machines at oldmountainbikes.com and another at retrobike.co.uk