Ritchey makes a full range of components for just about any bike out there, but they also make frames to go with them. They specialize in the steel frames that Founder Tom Ritchey has been designing and fabricating for decades. Ritchey is known for making mountain and road bikes, and now, they have the new Garden City Track/Fixie frame. The new frame will be at home on the track or on the road, and will be limited to 100 uniquely numbered frames.
The heart of the Garden City is the heat-treated, triple-butted Ritchey Logic steel tubing. It is Ritchey’s proprietary steel tubing that Tom developed back in 1984, with small changes since. The triple-butted designed it for his style of lugless construction, later updating it for tig welding. Double- or triple butted tubing means that it is different thicknesses in the center versus the ends. This keeps the material where it is needed for the joints, but allows the tubing to remain light and stiff, while retaining steel’s compliant ride.
While it has many classic touches, like a 68mm, English threaded bottom bracket and horizontal 120mm bolt on dropouts, it also includes a little more modern straight 1 1/8″ headtube with an included Ritchey WCS integrated headset. Finishing it off is a full carbon Ritchey fork with an integrated carbon crown. There are also bottle and brake mounts for versatility, and enough room to run a 700x28c tire. The stays accept up to a 55t chainring for speed on the track, or dial it back to rip on the roads.
The Garden City comes as a frame and is ready for you to build up with your favorite Richey cockpit. Frames will be available in small, medium, large, and extra large, with the frame weighing in at 1,950g and another 525g for the fork with an uncut steerer. The color is called Midnight Violet with Moon Yellow accents. Each frame is numbered on the down tube, proudly showing it is one of 100 frames made.
The Garden City will be available on October 15th on Ritchey’s website for $1,199.
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