RE: [CR]Tom Ritchey Road #10?

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From: "Stockwell, Brad" <BRAD.STOCKWELL@mpp.cpii.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]Tom Ritchey Road #10?
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 13:16:32 -0700


CR FOLK:

Just in case anyone's interested in this sort of thing...

There's a pea-green lugged-steel frame hanging from the ceiling at Palo Alto Bike Shop with a huge, sober-looking 'R' cut out of the BB. It's got a flat crown and campy dropouts. It looks to be repainted and there's a small ding (.1" diam?) on the bottom of the down-tube near the bracket. Hard to judge from below, but I'm guessing it's a 59 c-c.

I was staring at it trying to decide which classic roadframe builder's last name started with 'R' (and thinking what an elegant beater it would make) when one of the service guys told me that it was Tom Ritchey's 10th road frame. He added that it was owned by one of the store's buyers and was for sale, but the owner was out of town for a week. In the owner's absence he couldn't state a price but gave me to understand that it wasn't gonna be 'marketed' as a beater.

Note: this is not an ad; it's just a vague scouting report. If you happen to be a Ritchey fan, the shop's number is (650)328-7411. The bike is at the back of the store near the service department.

Brad Stockwell Palo Alto PS: Today I sucked the wheel of none other than US Postal Rider Dylan Casey. I've seen so many 'postal' team bikes and jerseys that I didn't give it a second thought - except that this guy really had the legs, and even the extra jacket in his jersey pocket matched, and he had something you don't see every day: a power meter on his crank. Of course, the real dead give-away was after he headed for home in Mountain View, and his buddy called him by name. Apparently he's staying home because four weeks ago he cracked his pelvis in the Tour of Dunkirk or some such, hitting a French TV sound-man who was standing in the wrong place.