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    No rhyme no reason just 1 Retrobike pic per post.

    My 1983 Ritchey Annapurna in 1984 leaning on WW II construction equipment abandoned in Canada's Northwest Territory This bike was BOTM some years back, and is now my every day "town bike" (with 1.5" slicks at 80 psi). Here is the story behind the ride.
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    Fat Tire Flyer book launch

    Thanks for the kind words. Unfortunately, I do not currently have a means to distribute outside the USA.
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    Retro bikes you saw V 2.0

    On a local history guided bicycle ride, a couple of the riders showed up on classic machinery. Steve Potts, a founding partner at WTB, grew up in the town where the ride was. Lettering on the Klein one-speed says "Test Bike."
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    Retro bikes you saw V 2.0

    After this titanium Marin retired from racing, it became a town bike.
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    Well. That was easy.

    I could not locate a SN# on the framer. Where is it?
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    Well. That was easy.

    Chain, tyres, derailleur idler, and one hour of labour.
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    Well. That was easy.

    My wife was taking a walk, and called me from a block from our house. "There is a lady putting a Stumpjumper out on the curb. You should check it out." One minute later... The chain was rusted into red ruin. The tyres were not good. But it was a 1994 Stumpjumper. It did not look as though it had...
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    Old Skool Adverts--- Got a Favorite, Post it.

    This is the raw copy Yeti sent for an ad in Fat Tire Flyer.
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    Old Skool Adverts--- Got a Favorite, Post it.

    It doesn't get any more "old school" than this. One of the first bikes Gary Fisher and I built fell into the hands of a rider whose friend was the editor of BMX PLUS! The editor, Dean Bradley, fell in love with the bike, and immediately wrote a bike review, the first ever of a 26" bike. As...
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    Retro bikes we've spotted

    Titanium Marin retired from racing and is now a town bike.
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    Help identifying an early 80's Ritchey

    T.I.G. welded, and a Tange fork. This would be after my time working with Tom, but that looks a lot more like a Fisher Montare than a Ritchey. A serial # would help.
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    Show us your Ritchey

    1983 Annapurna, 1995 P-21, 2020 P-29er
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    "Camera Corner," the Wende Cragg Story on YT

    Wende Cragg was an original mountain biker from the time before that term was coined. She was the only woman in a male dominated landscape, riding a modified Schwinn that weighed half of what she did. She had the foresight to lug a camera along to bicycling events whose importance can only be...
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