Just picked up my first real mountain bike. Its a Ritchey steel 650b mountain bike with a White Brothers fork, SRAM components, and Ritchey stem, bar and post. So far so good, did a quick 8 mile trail ride this morning and it seems good. Tell me what you think.



Will try and get it weighed up tomorrow

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Awesome steel is real!

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Sorry for my bad english!

A classic. One my favorite modern hardtails.
Tell us how does it ride.

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Pretty

My KHS Montana Team is made of Ritchey Logic tubing -----nice light stuff

Whats with the forward tilt of the handlebar?

Bike looks amazing maybe except for all the big stickers on the rims but more importantly how does it ride.

This is a great build! How is the White Brothers fork working?

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Thanks for the comments guys! As I said this is my first real mountain bike and Im also preparing for road and TT nats, so I've agonizingly been unable to really go shred this thing. I tested the white brothers fork against a fox, a magura, and the rigid ritchey fork before I ordered anything as my bike shop owner and his wife both have the same frame. It felt the best to me, really good feel and great function and adjustability in the lockout, floats right over most everything. Cant wait till I really get to ride it in late july when I get back from France and I'll make sure to write up a proper ride report! For now though I'll just say its the most fun bike I've been on in awhile, really easy going and the handling is super tight.

Also CBJ I think I'm going to de-sticker the wheels, think it will de-clutter the look really well.

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"But when you hit that asphalt down below nothing else matters, your pulse is skyrocketing toward 200"
Speed Concept
Colnago Mapei
S-5 VWD