Made My Day..................

[Retro_Roy]

we were hitting the local scrounging spots today. while chatting with a guy at the Mountain Equipment Co-op
about his recently found rocky mountain ritchey he had with him this classic beauty rolls up behind us.
sporting it's original paint, decals and fillet brazed loveliness.
the girl riding it told us it was her mothers bike. mom is the original owner.
thought some might enjoy a look as much as I did. pictures mr. wizard if you please.

 

[Anonymous]

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Pictures

 

[mrdryskull]

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Sweet like Candy,,looks to be the same purple as my Tantalus.

 

[mrdryskull]

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And Thanks for sharing Roy !

 

[Blizz]

Interesting paint job! And unique that they put the Tantalus decal on the fork. You guys are lucky out West to see so many custom Rocky Mountains and Brodie's. Thanks for posting!

 

[walleater]

Damn I missed that! I was probably around 10ft behind the bike at the time ;-)

 

[dyna-ti]

A nice looking frame indeed, and the headtubes really interesting :? very short to the usual 180mm The lug/gusset at the toptube junction again built with knocks in mind :?
I like to see the early ideas born out :? those especially that have become the norm

Great find and in such nice condition too. There cannot be many good conditioned ones left,even buried in garages and cellars ?

 

[BC]

Sweet find. I guess Bailey made that one eh?

 

[BC]

Is this an on gong thread of contributions of stuff we see locked up while out and about that 'made our day'?

 

[Trout]

Saw this when I was out with the baby yesterday - for sale at a local consignment store. Reminded me of my glory days as a bike messenger in SF in the 90's . All the purple anodized bits... LOL

(check out the Softride in the background...hah)

Sorry for the bad pics - it's hard to get close enough with a 20lb baby strapped to your body