Hi, I'm new to this forum and to mtb too! I recently went back to my parent's house to bring back my old mtb at my apartment. I started to ride a little with it and realized I don't even know which Brand / Model / Year it is for real.
Since then I'm trying to find out more about this bike which may be old but ride greatly!
I have made a little website to keep track of what I discover about my Unknown Bike and need help to fill the numerous blanks. If somebody could take a look here http://unknownbike.iampm.org to study the pictures and information about the bike to help me, it would be very nice!
And yes, I already asked for information at Ritchey Logic ... I did not receive anything helpful but a link to the oldmountainbikes.com's website which I already consulted to find out that I'm stuck at the same place as I am right now.
So its a Panasonic, not designed by Tom Ritchey but by someone else, doesnt look even remotely like Tom's work, but it has/had Ritchey stickers. Yeah, thats a Ritchey.
Just picked one of these up myself, and knowing Fillet-Brazed's appreciation for this odd bike I decided to bump this ancient thread and post some (really bad) pictures
Actually it's not too bad aside from a lot of paint wear - it had be used as a commuter by someone who knew nothing about bikes. The bar and stem are Ritchey Force, a couple of years too new for this bike but better that the high rise stem and 5 degree steel bar that had sadly replaced the Nitto bulls at some point in the bikes life. Rear derailleur in not Deerhead - there is a RD-L525 Light Action fitted for some reason - lovely Suntour pedals are missing and the back wheel is a Weinmann POC on a Formula hub. Still it's my first Ritchey (sort of) and I didn't pay very much for it, so I have some affection for it.
This was actually sold by a LBS in Kitchener, Ontario so they were obviously available across Canada - any idea of how many were made? I only know of 3 - Yours, mine and the First flight one. Did it have a model name?
I had a different lugged RoMo Canapurna Ritchey - it was a reddish-brown colour with a unicrown fork, bullmoose bars, deore derailleurs/shifters - the model was called the K2.
Bought at Pedlar in Toronto in the summer of 1987.
This was actually sold by a LBS in Kitchener, Ontario so they were obviously available across Canada - any idea of how many were made? I only know of 3 - Yours, mine and the First flight one. Did it have a model name?
This thread should really get moved back to the VRC forum.
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