What are you all riding? This is where we find out! You send us your submissions, and then we cast our judgemental expert lustful eyes over them and bring them to the world to ooh and ahh over. We’re picking the prettiest, the most curious, and the ones with a good story for you to appraise, praise, and maybe look wistfully at. This week’s bike is barely a mountain bike by today’s standards, but it is the ancestor of all that you ride today. It’s Charlie Kelly’s 1983 Ritchey Annapurna.
Why this bike?
After Gary Fisher bought my interest in MountainBikes, I asked Tom Ritchey to make me a custom Annapurna frame, his top model at the time.
Charlie Kelly’s 1983 Ritchey Annapurna
- Frame: Ritchey Annapurna
- Fork: Ritchey Unicrown
- Tyres: WTB and Tioga 26x 2.1
- Rear Mech: Shimano Deore XT
- Shifters: Shimano Deore XT
- Brakes: Shimano Deore XT
- Bars & Stem: Ritchey “Bullmoose”
- Grips: WTB
- Size and Weight: 23″ frame 11.5 kg
This bike has accompanied me on many amazing mountain bike adventures. It had decayed from disuse until recently. I had a friend restore it to new condition except for the paint, which is battered but original.
Are you interested in historical roots like these? Or just here for the latest in nu-tech ground breaking mountain bike development? Head to the comments!
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While you’re here, we’d like to draw your attention to our World Bicycle Relief fundraiser. If you’ve experienced the joy of a new bike day, you’ll know how great it is. Now imagine you get given a bike, and it changes your life, giving you and your family access to education, employment or healthcare. Through World Bicycle Relief, you’ve got the power to make that happen, and if you can spare a little, we invite you to make your donation here.
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