1983 Tom Ritchey - first in the UK?

hmmhmm · Mar 7, 2016

A couple of photos of parts of the Tom Ritchey that Norman Hiller of Covent Garden Cycles brought back from the USA.
Photos dated March 1983, including the following captions:
-Specially designed handlebars
-Suntour Mighty shift levers
-Brake levers from a motorcycle
-Simplex long-cage derailleur
-TA 26-36-47 chainset
-Bear-trap pedals

Ductape · Mar 11, 2016

Frame and build look very 1982. MountainBikes II frame. Dig it.

hmmhmm · Mar 12, 2016

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Found a contact sheet with a few more pix.

Repack Rider · Mar 13, 2016

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This is the first Ritchey sent to the UK, to Richard Ballantine and Richard Grant. It had a Tange fork, and was painted gray.

hmmhmm · Mar 13, 2016

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Repack Rider":2yj257lh said:
This is the first Ritchey sent to the UK, to Richard Ballantine and Richard Grant. It had a Tange fork, and was painted gray.

Maybe so, but Norman Hiller brought one back from California himself after a holiday there. It might have pre-dated the one shown on the magazine but I didn't submit my 'off-road test' article and photos until March. I can't remember which magazine published it.

Ductape · Mar 14, 2016

Ironically I was just reading the March/April 1983 issue of FTF and CK talks about this rag above in the editorial. He also talks about getting a postcard from two English cyclists Tim Gartside and Peter Murphy who were riding their Ritchey's (implied) across the Sahara. I actually came back to this thread to see if the names matched.

Repack Rider · Mar 14, 2016

Here's a link to a .pdf of the 1983 article.

Giom6 · Mar 14, 2016

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Cool

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