Ritte Cycles, any feedback?

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spookyload wrote:So you are implying the whole handmade bike show is all a bunch of bikes that likely ride the same, since they are prefabbed tubes simply welded together? The only difference in ride quality is based on geometry in your opinion. In your opinion, all 853 bikes that have the same geometry ride the same.


I doubt they'd even need to have the same tubing to feel similar.

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spookyload wrote:So you are implying the whole handmade bike show is all a bunch of bikes that likely ride the same, since they are prefabbed tubes simply welded together? The only difference in ride quality is based on geometry in your opinion. In your opinion, all 853 bikes that have the same geometry ride the same.


Yes and no, geometry plays a large role in the handling of the bike, there are obviously other subtle features, some which come with experience rather than engineering.

I was merely pointing out that you're confusing issues (which you still are), I was using a simplified example to aid my explanation.

My opinion is: If everything is constant, they'll ride the same. Logical, yes?

I'm saying with steel bikes, what's limiting the ride quality (with the custom frame builders at least anyway) isn't the engineering behind the tube sets but the application of the engineering. The ride of a carbon frame is much more limited by things like material, resin, shape, etc. choice , something a good engineer would be able to make reasonable suggestions for.
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kgt wrote:Just a friendly armchair bike fit advice polar ben.
Try to rotate your handlebars clockwise 20-30 degree. I think you will prefer it that way...

Thanks, but as I said, I turned the bars up slightly for this particularly long ride; they're usually a bit lower. A quick search reveals I'm not alone in preferring high shifters and 'rotated' bars for certain (longer, bumpier) races:

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and all of those look terrible also.

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by Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez

You forgot the best known :mrgreen:

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i mean ritte has cool styling. This bike albeit the gold chain is sweet. They also have cool tumblr ads. Their shop build bikes look way better than some hyper bikes i've seen that are built horribly. But hyper bikes can be built gud too.

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I think we all agree that their paintjobs are among the best on the market.
About everything else, we all have our own opinions. :mrgreen:

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That pump is destroying the whole bike.

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by Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez

Actually I had not seen the pump with the hi-viz paint and the silver wall

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by tomevental

Ritte is okay, I rather ride them then many other mass market frames even if they are open mold frames.

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tomevental wrote:Ritte is okay, I rather ride them then many other mass market frames even if they are open mold frames.


Didn't read the thread...?

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by Martin.dk

wow I would buy that blue and neon bike instantly......to bad they didn't go down that route.

I think it looks amazing. I have zero issues with rebranding open mould frames as long as you use your own brand and not pinarellos etc.

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+1 on that
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