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Good for keeping the rain out of my eyes, the bottom half can still get a bit soggy though!

The 650b build is need! But it’s some very short mug guards you run - do thy help any?

My first try to recreate the 1991 catalogue shot of the black edition. The catalogue shot is the Explosif but I think with a couple of...

The bearing quality and seals are better further up the range too. 520s wear out faster than 540s, and as a rule xt will last longer...

Might be true - but my experience both personally and as a mechanic is different - I killed a par of xtr's some years ago, never had...

Found some more 1998 stuff. Here is the bike sheets that show the different models, but some back sides are missing and a incomplete...

Found some lowres photos of the 98-99 catalog

Would also go for the m520, thy even come in silver for a retro look - the design is unchanged since 2004 so it’s fair to call them a...

+1 for the m520's; cheap and reliable and fairly in keeping with retro builds.

hi, sorry for pulling out this old thread, I came recently across unfortunate not a Ritchey bike but an old review of the Ritchey Mt...

Another Mt. Cross from Flickr - looks like such a nice ride!

There’s some old versions of the ritchey webpage on archive.org - the 1999 page on the Plexus is interesting. Found this picture on a...

no, sorry, I only have this picture, found at the internet, maybe even somewhere in the forum here Yes, this picture is something I...