does anyone on the cx forum have a ritchey breakaway cross bike?
04-06-09, 08:51 PM
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does anyone on the cx forum have a ritchey breakaway cross bike?
what are your thoughts? any good? Specifically looking for comments on the steel version?
thanks
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04-06-09, 09:09 PM
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I don't....yet. But I have dreamed about one for years now.
04-07-09, 04:54 PM
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Curtlo makes a custom version using the same breakaway Ritchey design for $1100 dollars. It is a good design but a friend of mine in Seattle who has one said it is good for a rider under 170lbs and kinda flexy for the other folks. He himself is 140lbs at 5'10"
04-10-09, 09:13 PM
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Used to own a Ritchey Swiss Cross. Red and white with a beautiful boxcrown fork. Never should have sold that bike. Oh well.
04-13-09, 06:42 PM
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my uncle has one and it's a great bike as far as I can tell. I know he's used it for everything, including some light touring.
08-11-09, 07:07 PM
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not to hijack the thread, but if anyone is interested, I'm selling a brand new 54 cm frame/fork/hs/case. It is brand new, never built up or ridden. PM for details. Check out the ad in the For Sale section.
https://www.bikeforums.net/sale/572783-brand-new-ritchey-break-away-cross-54-cm.html
https://www.bikeforums.net/sale/572783-brand-new-ritchey-break-away-cross-54-cm.html
08-17-09, 03:53 PM
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My partner has one that he built up earlier this year. He likes it a lot. However, if you are going to be traveling with it (on airplanes), the case exceeds the 62" h x w x d and the airlines may charge you $100 one way to check it as luggage.
