Can anyone help me identify this Ritchey? I got it from my dad, who started riding it in the 2010-2014 time frame. I want to use it do to some bike packing and maybe gravel, but not sure what the frame is.
by chowderhound92
Can anyone help me identify this Ritchey? I got it from my dad, who started riding it in the 2010-2014 time frame. I want to use it do to some bike packing and maybe gravel, but not sure what the frame is.
by chowderhound92
3 Comments
Think it is the Ritchey Cross Breakaway. Legit bike, legendary bike.
Yooo this is cool. Its a CX bike ([cyclocross](https://usacycling.org/article/what-is-cyclocross)), that takes after the Swiss Cross, another Ritchey bike, which is an absolutely *legendary* bike that was built by Tom Ritchey for Thomas Frischknecht, a world champion CX racer. That bike was raced to victory for decades, and is still being raced today by many sponsored riders. It is perhaps the most famous CX bike ever.
Tom Ritchey was one of the people that invented the mountain bike and was also one of the first people to ever build one. He’s a legendary American frame builder. Like, maybe *the* most noteworthy American frame builder.
This bike differs from the Swiss Cross in that you can take it apart. You can break the frame in half, put it in a box, travel, and put it back together with a simple cycling multi-tool. That is what makes this bike different.
Super duper fucking cool. Out dated now, but still very relevant for gravel riding. Not sure it will make the best bike backing rig, but you could figure it out. You’ll want to keep things light.
Beautiful bike