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New Ritchey Road Logic

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#1 ·
Ritchey Dave, can you share some of the spec on the 2012 production version of the Logic Road frame/fork? Geometry (including bb drop) for each size? Are the fork legs and/or steerer steel or carbon? BB shell format? Will Excel have them in July?

The pics from NAHBS show a color that looks to be a charcoal. Is this the color for the production run coming?
 
#2 ·
The 2012 Ritchey Road Logic will share a lot of the same spec as the SwissCross that we've recently released: heat treated, triple-butted Ritchey Logic II tubing, standard english BB, forged and machined integrated head tube. They will come with a painted to match Ritchey Pro Logic road fork which is full carbon. The frame you saw at NAHBS is pretty much exactly what they'll look like. And yes, our buddies at Excel Sports will be carrying them.

We're extremely excited about this frame, I've been testing one out for a few weeks and two words come to mind, buttery smooth.
 
#11 ·
More on the Ritchey Road Logic Frame

More on the Ritchey Road Logic frame!





CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF RITCHEY STEEL: Tom Ritchey built his first road frame 40 years ago and went on to bring numerous innovations to the craft. The 2012 Road Logic carries many of the subtleties and details gleaned from Tom’s vast experience with steel frames.

A MODERN CLASSIC: Tom designed an all-new, heat-treated and triple-butted Ritchey Logic tubeset for the new Road Logic, featuring aggressively short butted sections optimized for TIG welding that save weight and improve ride quality. Ritchey’s proprietary forged and machined integrated head tube uses standard drop-in bearings and saves 80 grams over a standard head tube design.

QUALITY STEEL WITH REAL-WORLD FEATURES: Frames are handmade in Asia by a frame builder qualified by Tom Ritchey himself. And with room for 700x28c tires and classic Ritchey geometry, the Road Logic is ideally suited for long, epic days in the saddle on roads that are not always paved and still nimble and stiff enough to take the county line sprint at the end of the day.

SIZE: 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59cm
WEIGHT: 3.9lbs (55cm)
MSRP: $1299.99
ETA: Late August
 
#19 ·
Good question! Most headtubes have a larger diameter (1 1/8") to accommodate headset cups to be pressed in and still allow the steer tube to move freely. Since we integrated the cups into the headtube and removed the redundant material of the cups, there was no need for the tube to be as large. A smaller tube (1") with thicker walls would be lighter and stronger, two things we as cyclist can never have enough of. Thus, making everything we love about steel frames even lighter.

Hope that answers your question.

Dave
 
#34 ·
The seat tube angle is just how Tom has designed frames now for a long time and is just what he feels a frame of that size requires.

As far as a comparison between the new Road Logic and the older Nitanium version, I think you'd be the best qualified to find out and fill us all in:)
 
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