Show us Your................. Ridgeback......!

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Got it together new cables etc and out for a spin
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Stunning

 

[Bawgixer]

Cosmic trail frame bag added for hauling light snacks

 

[joglo]

Just came across the 601 in an old MTB catalog from 1990.
The text is translated with Google lense, don't wonder...

 

[XTSTIMAN]

Not a MTB, more a ATB?
1992 503 Trail
Would have had LX with DX brakes and shifters.
Shifters removed off levers and rapid fire fitted, newer odd wheelset

 

[JamesP]

My 1995 Team RX Competition

 

[red_dread]

Can't believe it's taken me this long to share this! I said it was the most important bike I'd ever own, I meant it then and I mean it now.

 

[boy"O"boy]

Can't believe it's taken me this long to share this! I said it was the most important bike I'd ever own, I meant it then and I mean it now.

@red_dread
Love this.
Just spent a very enjoyable 20 mins watching the restoration video. 100% feel the passion for these early Ridgebacks. You've done a great job with yours.

It's the 1989 model year after yours that triggered my passion for Ridgebacks. That yellow cover Freewheel Catalogue was a bible for my 15 year old self.....the prestige framed 604SIS and fillet brazed 605SIS were the poster boys of the 1989 range.
I remember someone having the white 602LX in school and seeing a 603SIS in the Freewheel shop in Norwich, but these two models were converted dream bikes that you didn't see other than in the pages of MBUK or MBi.

Fast forward to March this year....I finally score one of my most wanted......a very clean condition 604 SIS frame and fork. It took a while to source all the original components, but it's now 99% Freewheel Catalogue spec.


Build thread here.
https://www.retrobike.co.uk/threads/boy-o-boys-1989-ridgeback-604-sis.476550/

1989 Freewheel Catalogue cover.

Catalogue pic.



I'm also fortunate to have the top of the line Ridgeback 704XT from the 1990 model year.
The only model above this was the Merlin Titanium.





The one I want to complete? A 1989 605 SIS fillet brazed in 20" frame....I'm patient.... I've already been waiting 12 years for one to surface. Like the 604 SIS... Occasionally the planets align!

Cheers
boy"O"boy

 

[Waterford 45]

1985 Ridgeback XT.