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es ist schon länger her, dass ich neben meinem eigenen Aufbaufäden - www.steelfightsback.com - auch hier dokumentieren. Aber dieser gehört hierher, denn ich gestehe, dass ich zwar seit 1992 Fan von Breezer & der feinen Welt des stahl MTBs bin, aber so richtig restaurieren und dokumentieren habe ich mit dem 1990er Ritchey Team P23 hier begonnen....
Ca. 5 Jahre später dann, erreichte mich diese Nachricht, die ich dann erstmal so stehen lassen will
"I actually own the P-23 in the article you posted from Mountain & City Biking magazine. I was the editor at the time. It was frame #6 built by Tom.
Er meinte hat diese Seite gelesen: https://www.steelfightsback.com/ritchey/p-23-team-don-myrah-replica-1990/
This bike was possibly/probably a prototype. It was one of the team bikes before this bike was every "produced". And in fact, he did not keep doing as much of the fillet brazing after these bikes. These were all done by Tom Ritchey at his house on Skyline drive.
I was the co-founder and editor of Mountain Biking Magazine. I wrote under my own name and with an alias. During that time, I met Tom and we became friends. Then he hired me to design and write his catalogs for him. I did some of these in trade for bikes. I still have one of his very rare road bikes, which I will never sell. It fits me perfectly, and I still love steel. But I also got one of his first P-23's. Back in the rigid fork/hardtail days, nothing was better.
Over the next few years I did a lot with Tom. I was the one who came up with "Logic" as his parts brand. Logic tubing, headsets, etc. I also named his Megabyte Hardrive and Overdrive tires."
The frame is still hanging in my garage, though painted by Jeff Lindsay of Mountain Goat fame.
I don't really remember exactly the series of events, but I loved the P-23, and it was a great bike for So Cal. Then Rock Shox hit, and I got a Mag 21 from them. Jeff Lindsay was a friend, but didn't have a big ego, so he didn't mind my riding a Ritchey (a competitor), but he loved painting, and he offered to paint the frame and fork for me. I sent them up north, and he painted them. It's cool paint, but not really my style.
As for the fork...scratching my head. Not much memory there...but here is my guess...Tom used Tange Prestige forks a lot, until he came out with Logic tubing. I was slow on putting Rock Shox, so I think he swapped out the white Tanges for these Logics. When I was working for Tom, I was up in Redwood City 2x a month. These red forks have ever so slight TIG beads, visible on the back. Not fillet. But not really bigger...still 1” steerer, and not oversized yet like Koski or Tioga. I think they are prototype Logic forks. Pics attached.
One other VERY important point I just remembered looking at the photos (which, believe it or not, I probably took myself at the magazine office!)...Jeff Lyndsey, of Mountain Goat fame, when he did the paint, welded up the stem, which you saw in the earlier pics, but also moved the cable guides to the top tube like some guys on the team did. We called this “Yeti style”. I don’t think Tom like it! To be a correct restore, you would want to braze the on the top and down tubes per the production models."
Um diesen Artikel geht es (siehe bessere Auflösung unten)
Dieses Bild bekam ich dazu...
Ein paar Wochen später
und hier, die Aufgabe (Bild von heute)
Das war im Paket
neben teils originalen teilen ist sind das meine Highlights
1. - ein original Team Hinterad, mit Seriennummer von Wheelsmith.
(Das VR mit Shimano 600 Nabe und Wheelsmith Speichen) wurde nachgebaut mit der silbernen Vintage Comp (hab ich auch noch nicht gesehen.In dem folgenden Bild ist noch ein anderes VR, da wäre die passende Felge
2. eine der wohl ersten Ritchey Force Directional Forged Stützen (schlechtes Bild, aber die hat noch nicht mal das Ritchey Logo oben am Kopf gehabt). Mehr Fotos mache ich später mit bezug zum Katalog...
und in die Richtung gehts ...
anderenVorbau brauchst, ja.
bis bald
es ist schon länger her, dass ich neben meinem eigenen Aufbaufäden - www.steelfightsback.com - auch hier dokumentieren. Aber dieser gehört hierher, denn ich gestehe, dass ich zwar seit 1992 Fan von Breezer & der feinen Welt des stahl MTBs bin, aber so richtig restaurieren und dokumentieren habe ich mit dem 1990er Ritchey Team P23 hier begonnen....
Ca. 5 Jahre später dann, erreichte mich diese Nachricht, die ich dann erstmal so stehen lassen will
"I actually own the P-23 in the article you posted from Mountain & City Biking magazine. I was the editor at the time. It was frame #6 built by Tom.
Er meinte hat diese Seite gelesen: https://www.steelfightsback.com/ritchey/p-23-team-don-myrah-replica-1990/
This bike was possibly/probably a prototype. It was one of the team bikes before this bike was every "produced". And in fact, he did not keep doing as much of the fillet brazing after these bikes. These were all done by Tom Ritchey at his house on Skyline drive.
I was the co-founder and editor of Mountain Biking Magazine. I wrote under my own name and with an alias. During that time, I met Tom and we became friends. Then he hired me to design and write his catalogs for him. I did some of these in trade for bikes. I still have one of his very rare road bikes, which I will never sell. It fits me perfectly, and I still love steel. But I also got one of his first P-23's. Back in the rigid fork/hardtail days, nothing was better.
Over the next few years I did a lot with Tom. I was the one who came up with "Logic" as his parts brand. Logic tubing, headsets, etc. I also named his Megabyte Hardrive and Overdrive tires."
The frame is still hanging in my garage, though painted by Jeff Lindsay of Mountain Goat fame.
I don't really remember exactly the series of events, but I loved the P-23, and it was a great bike for So Cal. Then Rock Shox hit, and I got a Mag 21 from them. Jeff Lindsay was a friend, but didn't have a big ego, so he didn't mind my riding a Ritchey (a competitor), but he loved painting, and he offered to paint the frame and fork for me. I sent them up north, and he painted them. It's cool paint, but not really my style.
As for the fork...scratching my head. Not much memory there...but here is my guess...Tom used Tange Prestige forks a lot, until he came out with Logic tubing. I was slow on putting Rock Shox, so I think he swapped out the white Tanges for these Logics. When I was working for Tom, I was up in Redwood City 2x a month. These red forks have ever so slight TIG beads, visible on the back. Not fillet. But not really bigger...still 1” steerer, and not oversized yet like Koski or Tioga. I think they are prototype Logic forks. Pics attached.
One other VERY important point I just remembered looking at the photos (which, believe it or not, I probably took myself at the magazine office!)...Jeff Lyndsey, of Mountain Goat fame, when he did the paint, welded up the stem, which you saw in the earlier pics, but also moved the cable guides to the top tube like some guys on the team did. We called this “Yeti style”. I don’t think Tom like it! To be a correct restore, you would want to braze the on the top and down tubes per the production models."
und hier, die Aufgabe (Bild von heute)
Das war im Paket
neben teils originalen teilen ist sind das meine Highlights
1. - ein original Team Hinterad, mit Seriennummer von Wheelsmith.
2. eine der wohl ersten Ritchey Force Directional Forged Stützen (schlechtes Bild, aber die hat noch nicht mal das Ritchey Logo oben am Kopf gehabt). Mehr Fotos mache ich später mit bezug zum Katalog...
und in die Richtung gehts ...
anderenVorbau brauchst, ja.
bis bald
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Insbesondere, weil dir ja schon im Vorfeld klar gewesen ist, dass die Meinungen auseinander gehen werden.
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