This week’s Readers’ Rides comes from our home base of Santa Fe, penned by Ship of Fools Pedal Club and the Santa Fe Fat Tire Society‘s own Blake Hendsch. Below, Blake writes about a fun Specialized Hardrock basket bike build. Let’s check it out!
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Velo Cosmos Grass Valley Returns November 14th at the Holbrooke Hotel!
Velo Cosmos, a celebration of vintage cycling, returns to the Holbrooke Hotel in Grass Valley, California this year on November 14th. This event’s long-term goal is to create gatherings where all kinds of cyclists – or future cyclists can meet in one place, get excited and learn about the culture and history of bicycles. You can see our recap from last year’s event in our Archives.
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Rapha and Palace Have Teamed Up Again
Rapha’s teamed up with Palace again for a throwback collection evoking the style of the 1980s and 90s. Check out the full presser below.
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Kelly Bike Co TakeOff Drop Bar Shifter Mounts Are Back in Stock For Now
Popularized in the 1990 through the early aughts and back in stock for now, Kelly Bike Co’s TakeOff™ shift lever mount adapters are a means to mount your existing down tube shift levers right beneath your brake levers (drop bars only) on your vintage road bike, touring bike, drop bar MTB, or cyclocross bike with access to the shifters from the three most important spots on your drop style handlebars: tops, drops, and brake hoods…
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Tom Ritchey is Selling Fillet Brazed Bullmoose Bars and Forks for Vintage Ritchey MTB Owners
While John was checking in with Ritchey before Sea Otter, he got a sneak peek at the new Tom Ritchey-built Bullmoose bars and bi-plane forks Tom was working on for owners of these original 1980 Ritchey Mountain Bikes. Tom said he was inspired by both John’s and David Harrison’s restoration work on these non-serial 1980 frames that were sold without Bullmoose bars or forks.
Well, the news is live today that Tom Ritchey will be debuting this collection in person at MADE, so let’s check out the full 411 below!
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1984 Ritchey Annapurna: Lots of Brass
We looked at the restoration of this 1984 Ritchey Annapurna through a series of videos earlier this year, and today, we’re sharing a full Beautiful Bicycles gallery documentation of it, along with a brief quote by Tom Ritchey himself. John takes a look at this esquisite emblematic example of the quality work leaving the workshop of Ritchey below!
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Readers’ Rides: Zeke’s Gemini World Randonneur
Originally featured in our MADE OZ coverage, Zeke’s stunning resto-mod Gemini World randonneur build was expanded upon by Alex Streich on the Off Course Bike Shop blog. We’ve got the whole write-up below for a very in-depth Readers’ Rides!
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Vintage Bicycles: 1983 Steve Potts MTB – What Are Dirt Drops?
Dirt drops are mentioned periodically here on The Radavist, usually in the context of a modern hardtail, rigid mountain bike, or adventure touring bike. But where did this terminology come from, and how are vintage dirt drops wildly different from what we have today? Using his 1983 Steve Potts as a platform for discussion, John unfurled the unique history behind this bike and looked at a proper 1980s dirt drop setup. Let’s check it out.
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Mike Varley’s ‘Dropping In’ Article from 1991
We’ve got a story coming up tomorrow that references this Mountain and City Biking article written by Black Mountain Cycle‘s Mike Varley from 1991 about drop bars on mountain bikes. Also known as dirt drops, Mike discusses the benefits of the unique riding position offered by these off-road drop bars in the original article text below…
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Readers’ Rides: Daniel’s Trek 830 Monster Track Double Converted ATB
The internet can be a valuable tool for problem-solving vintage conversions. Its users have often figured out compatibility issues or clever hacks to get you to your desired goal. That’s the case with Daniel and his vintage Trek 830, that he converted to a drop bar gravel bike. Let’s check it out!
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Brooks Reissues the Standard Professional Saddle
It may no longer be light enough for elite competition, but Brooks has resurrected the Standard Professional – originally born as a racing saddle – from the brand archives because it remains a beautiful and comfortable design, perfect for today’s discerning cyclists and randonneurs…
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Readers’ Rides: Jerry’s 1997 TREK Multitrack 700 Sport
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t take a look around once in a while from atop a vintage mountain bike, you could miss it. Jerry’s got the right idea with his 1997 TREK Multitrack 700 Sport, so let’s check it out in this week’s Readers’ Rides!
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Selle San Marco Limited Edition Concor 50 Eroica
Perhaps Selle San Marco’s most iconic saddle is the Concor and for the 50th anniversary of this iconic saddle, the brand teamed up for a collaboration with Eroica on a limited edition release.
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Mock Orange Bikes: 20 Years in Winston-Salem, NC
The last 20 years have seen seismic changes to brick-and-mortar businesses of all kinds, especially bike shops, yet Mock Orange Bikes endures. Mock Orange and its owner, Charles Van Isenburg, have remained a pillar of Winston-Salem, NC’s bike community for two decades with a relationship-driven, neighborhood-oriented, very much offline, and old-school way of conducting retail business.
On one of his frequent swings through his native North Carolina, Andy Karr stopped by his favorite hometown bike shop to chat with Charles about what’s changed in 20 years of owning a shop and what hasn’t.
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Paul Component Engineering Cranks: It’s a Cult Thing
Ever-digging through cycling esoterica, John landed a set of Paul Component Engineering Cranks recently, thus spurring a desire to wax poetic about them, juxtaposed by a recent comment he read last month on this very website. Read on for a ramble…
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Readers’ Rides: Chris King’s Own Cinelli Supercorsa
We’ve got a special Readers’ Rides today. It’s Chris King’s personal Cinelli Supercorsa. Chris has owned this since the mid-70s and rode it for 20 years straight, including a bike tour from Seattle to Santa Barbara. It features an early Chris King headset using salvaged grade 9 modified bearings and yeah, it’s got some beausage! Let’s check it out with words and photos by Jacob Olsen from Chris King below…
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History of Mountain Bike Evolution Show: Bicycle Taxonomy
John spent last weekend in Santa Cruz catching up with friends, riding some tacky dirt and checking out the History of Mountain Bike Evolution Show at Santa Cruz Bicycles, put on by Doug Hatfield, Velo Cosmos with Team Old Soil. The show spanned the evolution of the mountain bike from the 1940s through the Syndicate Racing Team’s World Cup DH machines.
Below, John hones in on the evolution of cruiser bikes to klunkers and the genesis of the Marin County “Mountain Bike” and shares a jam-packed gallery of bikes and hangs…
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The History of MTB Evolution Show is This Weekend at Santa Cruz Bicycles
This weekend, April 13th and 14th, Santa Cruz Bicycles is hosting the next Velo Cosmos showcase with Team Old Soil on the history of mountain bike evolution. John will be there, documenting the fun so if you’re in the area, be sure to swing by!
Santa Cruz Bicycles Factory Store
2841 Mission St Extension
Santa Cruz, CA, 95060
9 AM – 4 PM
