Ritchey catalogs

[Stinus]

Does anyone know where to fine the ritchey catalogs from 1998 to 2000? looking specially for material on the plexus

Thanks

 

[grantoury]

Did you try googling them? Sometimes you find stuff behind paywalls, but there can be ways around them.

 

[Stinus]

I tried - do you have a link?

 

[grantoury]

Haven't looked myself.

 

[joglo]

Maybe this snippet helps a bit, its from the brochure from 2000

Unfortunately i do not have much more.
I'm searching since a while also for Ritchey catalogs from that time, I would love to better understand better the Mt. Cross, or what was offered when.


So if someone get's hold of catalogs, please upload to the Archive here

 

[Stinus]

Thanks! that’s great - do you have the brochure? if so can I get you to take a close up of the plexus part?

That mount cross sounds super interesting- a 2000 gravel bike? Do you have a image of the frame?

 

[joglo]

Thanks! that’s great - do you have the brochure?

no, sorry, I only have this picture, found at the internet, maybe even somewhere in the forum here

That mount cross sounds super interesting- a 2000 gravel bike? Do you have a image of the frame?

Yes, this picture is something I don't get out of my head any longer


It's from a review in the MBA mag 1999

Post in thread 'Ritchey Mount Cross'

May 4, 2024

hi, sorry for pulling out this old thread,
I came recently across unfortunate not a Ritchey bike but an old review of the Ritchey Mt. Cross, a scan of the Mountain Bike Action issue Sep. 1999.
Looking at this I'm now queuing up here too to find one.





A really lovely bike

• joglo

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And this is a picture (not from me, but https://www.flickr.com/photos/gruntso/albums/72157606351975458/) should show a 2001 model


But other than that, there is not a lot of information.

To me the Mt. Cross was indeed more of a hybrid (or nowadays Gravel-) bike, much more than the Swiss Cross also offered at same time, which seem to be more of a traditional CX, road racing inspired bike.

 

[Stinus]

That’s a really interesting bike - would love to find one some day! There are a lot of late nineties hybrid bikes, but very few high end hybrids.

I have owned two Swiss cross - is definitely a full blooded cross bike, the 2000’ish model doesn’t take much more than 33mm tires with proper clearance!

 

[Stinus]

There’s some old versions of the ritchey webpage on archive.org - the 1999 page on the Plexus is interesting.



Found this picture on a odd Japanese webpage of the mt cross whit a sloping seat stay the same frame is on the 2001 version of Ritcheylogic.com

 

[Stinus]

Another from Flickr - looks like such a nice ride!