You still get a pretty long wheelbase that helps smooth out the ride, and provides plenty of room for wider touring tires, and fenders. Looking at the rest of the frame, another thing to take note of is that this is the cyclocross geometry, which puts this between a road bike and a touring bike.
You will need to use two lengths of cable to get them working, but once they are set, you can split the cables with just a few twists, eliminating the need to readjust your brakes and derailleurs when reassembling your bike. To keep things simple, Ritchey includes cable disconnects for your rear break, and both derailleurs. I will admit, this was an area where I had some skepticism, but throughout my tour, I never heard the clamp creak, never had to re-tighten the bolt, and couldn't feel any excessive flex in the frame.Īny time you pull apart a bike, dealing with the cables can be a bit of a trick. The clamp takes a 4mm Allen wrench, and keeps the frame locked together by grasping onto two flanges that flare out at either end of the tubes. The next step involves clamping the frame near the bottom bracket and down tube with a replaceable hinge clamp. The seat post clamp binds the top tube and seat tube together, so all you have to do is insert the seat post through both pieces of the frame, and tighten two 5mm bolts. The frame is linked together in two locations, which are very intuitive.
BREAKAWAY BIKE TOUR FULL SIZE
The first, and most obvious, talking point about this bike is the way in which it goes from a full size bike, into a travel friendly suitcase in literally a few minutes. While Ritchey does not offer a true touring bike, their Steel Break-Away Cross Bike is an excellent choice for long distance touring, and it's the bike I chose for my most recent, month-long, loaded tour of Mexico. Reading through some of the comments on that post, I was thrilled to see someone mention the Ritchey Break Away system. Evenepoel crossed the line fourth, two seconds behind.A few months ago I put up a post about S&S couplings. Buitrago, Kämna and Costa went off in pursuit of victory, with the honours ultimately falling to the latter.
He ploughed on to finish 145th with a torn jersey and streaks of energy gel down his backside, the wrappers having burst in his jersey pocket.Īs the stage entered its finale, the breakaway began to whittle down. The breakaway's advantage swung out to over three and a half minutes over the penultimate climb, with little chase behind.īack in the peloton, Geraint Thomas dropped behind the bunch, having hit the tarmac in a crash. The stage offered a hilly but unchallenging parcours, with a category-three climb followed by a pair of category twos.Ī 15-man group formed after the hectic start, with polka dot jersey wearer Remco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) present once again up the road. Race leader Sepp Kuss (Jumbo-Visma) crossed the line in 19th place with the main peloton and will take an advantage of one minute and 37 seconds into Monday's second rest day.īilled as a day for the breakaway, it took around 80 kilometres before a front group formed on the road out of Pamplona. "It takes a lot of dedication, effort and work to get here that people don't see. "After so much fighting, it's not easy," the stage winner said. Having waited patiently, Costa pipped him in the closing metres. The German, who won stage nine last weekend, then remounted, caught up and launched his sprint to the line first. The duo were then tagged by Kämna on the final climb, who passed them before crashing on the ensuing descent. On Sunday, Costa broke out of a mammoth-sized front group with Buitrago inside the final 15km of the 158.5km stage.
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