Recent content by unafraid

Nope, sold!

Looking into selling my red P-22. Size is 18". Bought it (and the stem) from former Veteran World Champion Jim Sullivan in December 2010. It was barely ridden when I got it; since then, I've ridden a bit over 10,000kms on it, mostly on paved and gravel roads. I did a few local races on it too...

Another update: ended up riding over 5000kms on it last year and I got 2300kms so far this season, and I'm still racing it. :) I hope Ritchey produces the P-29er though, this *could* potentially be my next bike.

Pretty cool, never heard of that company before!

A little update! Bike still unchanged, I've put over 2500 kilometers since the beginning of the season on February 28, bike is holding up well, even entered 3 local x-c races on it since the end of May and got 3rd each time. Jaws are dropping when they see the bike, especially next to fully...

I do. Nice vintage bikes are cool to look at, but they're even cooler to ride. :)

Very nice bike. When I was a teenager, I was dreaming of owning either a Ritchey or a Breezer.

I've raced the DH course at Bromont on a Softride back in 1994... :D

Holy crap, that's an awesome bike, love the stem and the fork. Completely forgot about that IRD fork!

I think it's a 2nd generation stem, although I don't remember when the damper surfaced. Was it with the new threadless aluminum stem or the more recent gold or yellow versions? Btw, Sully said he even had a JP Morgen stem (he has one installed on his Lite Beam if I'm not mistaken). Now that's...

Finally got my Softride stem from Sully! It feels awesome! He even included 3 optional springs just in case I feel like fine-tuning the ride.

Call me crazy, but I thought about replacing the shift-brake levers with XT thumbshifters + v-brake setup. I wonder how well that would work. As for v-brakes not belonging to a P-22, well, I want the bike to look and feel vintage while still being decently raceable. The current XT cantis have...

Here's the situation: my '92 Ritchey P-22 comes with Deore XT 3x7 brake-shift levers and XT cantis. I don't like the performance of the cantis, so I'd like to switch to XT v-brakes. Now I know that the brake levers won't be compatible anymore. What should I do? In a perfect world, I'd like to...

I got the bike (and the upcoming stem) from a guy named Jim S. We've exchanged quite a bunch of emails since I purchased the bike on Ebay and it only hit me today: Jim S = Jim Sullivan = Sully, the guy who used to race for Team Ritchey/Softride. No wonder he has all that Ritchey and Softride...

Nice frame! Dig those square tubes.