'85 Ritchey

[paddy311]

Started putting this together today, so thought I'd show some quick pics.

It's an '85 Ritchey that I'm giving to mrs311 to use. It will be getting plenty of use too - so a well proven slightly updated spec is the way it's going.



Ritchey levers and NOS M650 thumbies



Correct ritchey fork, basic dia compe front brake. (rear is a really trick dia tech CNC U brake)


Early Ritchey logic chainset and NOS M650 front mech



Wheels are pretty much unused and perfect M650 hubs and equally perfect M321 rims



Rear mech will also be M650. Modern ritchey tyres etc.

Hope she likes it ! She has no idea about it yet..... and she doesn't read the forum so shhh.

Will update the thread with some finished pics and some muddy ones soon

 

[raidan73]

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Ah, so it was you! Very nice mate

 

[paddy311]

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Thanks Adrian Even though it is way too small for me, I just couldn't resist it !

Now even worse I have to look at it while I ride one of my heaps

 

[elPedro666]

Glad this got a good home, what an absolute beauty, sure your good lady will be over the moon with it!

 

[Wold Ranger]

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Looking forward to the finished build, lovely riding frames indeed.

 

[paddy311]

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Looking forward to the finished build, lovely riding frames indeed.

Hope I do it justice Philip


Those of you with a photographic memory of the classifieds on here will know I bought the frame and some of the parts from Wold Ranger.


Bike is pretty much finished now - but no pictures yet. Mrs 311 has now seen it, and is pretty chuffed - if a little surprised. Her first comment was.... 'but I like riding my pink bike!' The pink bike is a '90 alpinestars USA cro mega. After a long conversation about what it was and why I'd built it for her she has warmed to it quite a bit


As with all builds - I had the obligatory total f*** up today. Setting up all the controls for mrs 311's riding position, I stripped the threads in one of the brake levers while setting the lever angles.

It's a blind tapped hole in very soft cast ally with no opportunity to tap it oversize so the ritchey levers, or one of them at least is now scrap It didn't feel like I was giving it any welly at all as I nipped it up, but sure enough *POP* and the threads pulled out.

If anyone by any small miracle has one of these that they want to sell then I'm all ears. Otherwise it'll be another pair of levers to finish it - I'm thinking dia compe ss-5 as they are still readily available new, work really well, and are pretty classic.

 

[elPedro666]

Wouldn't be a RetroBike if something didn't go pop entirely at random! Would've thought a little helicoil kit should sort it though?

Glad your good lady is warming to it

 

[paddy311]

Wouldn't be a RetroBike if something didn't go pop entirely at random! Would've thought a little helicoil kit should sort it though?

Glad your good lady is warming to it

Cheers.
You wouldn't get a helicoil in it because the hole for the other side of the clamp is in the way, and too small.

I've now got another pair of levers winging their way over from Denmark - so should be sorted and together by the weekend all being well

 

[yeti-man]

to bad the fork sticker is too high up - nice bike though

 

[paddy311]

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