Tom Ritchey to Launch Mountain Bikes by Tom w/ LTD Bullmoose Bars & Bi-Airplane Forks at MADE
Tom Ritchey is a bicycle commerce icon, mountain bike pioneer, product designer, and grasp physique builder. Tom’s been a driving strain inside the bike biz since welding his first mountain bike physique nearly fifty years prior to now. Now, under the title Moutain Bikes by Tom, he’s bringing once more his coveted Bullmoose Bars and Bi-Airplane Forks. The intent is that present owners of genuine Ritchey frames that don’t have the right fork and bars can have the flexibility to buy the right components as made by the OG himself.
Tom will probably be launching this restricted run at this 12 months’s MADE Current in Portland and “accepting orders from present Ritchey Owners.” Does that suggest you have to already private a Ritchey to buy a fork and bar? We’re undecided, nevertheless we’ll be there to cowl it!
“I’ve been witnessing this for years — the place people don’t have the fork or bar that was designed to associate with their Ritchey physique, and they also’re scrounging spherical for them. I started seeing different components for my frames which have been missing particulars. They’ve been made by others, and they also weren’t doing them correct. Now, in any case these years I’m serving to those followers do it correct.” – Tom Ritchey
Added Bonus!
Other than attending to see some handmade bars and forks by a grasp of the craft, Tom may provide a brazing seminar. Along with a fast lecture on full design, and why custom-built framesets matter.
MADE Current attendees can watch the grasp in movement as Tom wields the torch on the Ritchey gross sales house #358. This may increasingly occur on Saturday, August twenty fourth at noon.
Some Tom Historic previous
Not practically designing one different double-triangle physique, Tom wanted to make a “purpose-built” bicycle. That meant a bicycle that included forks that had a selected rake and flex to cope with off-road utilizing with confidence. It was moreover about task-specific, assertive cock pits that didn’t slip or give whereas utilizing new terrain. Whereas he was producing the first mountain bike frames he had already thought of a whole reply. He knew what was needed for these new off-road machines.
Enter the Bullmoose Bar and Bi-plane forks. These signature bars and forks have been provided as genuine instruments on the early Mountain Bikes by Ritchey. As a result of it turned out, demand for these bikes rose faster than Tom could maintain with. So a particular reply was reached.
“Buried inside the legend of the “Hen Coop” bike and totally different frames of that interval have been a few hundred frames have been provided with out their meant forks and thus began their lives significantly incomplete.”
Acquired right here to MADE and Meet Tom
Go to Ritchey at MADE, gross sales house #358, August 23-25, all through the following hours:
Friday, August 23, 12:00-6:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 24, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, August 25, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
