ritchey ultra

You are looking at a 1994 Ritchey Ultra, and I am really sad that this frame is too small for me.

What's a little funny about that is that I've had two people tell me that they have never seen an Ultra in a larger size. Which made me think, 'yeah, neither have I.' And I'm sad because once I cleaned it up a bit, it weighed 22 pounds, and it's a really nice bike.

I also thought that the Ultra was made in the very early 90's, and therefore this one had been upgraded, but, it appears in Ritchey catalogs up to '93. There is no '94 bike catalog that I can find, but the '94 Ritchey component catalog has the Logic Compact cranks, so it seems like 1994 is correct.

We have Shimano rapid fire 8 speed shifters - first year for them - Ritchey Logic W.C.S. brakes, Logic Compact cranks, XT hubs on Mavic 231 rims, a Ritchey Logic Comp headset and Shimano UN71 BB. It's always a treat to pull the BB and find one of these beauties.

The bike came with a high-rise setup like you typically find on old bikes where their old owners want something more upright. But I never intended to keep this so I didn't care about that. I found though that I just couldn't leave it the way it was, and I had to return it to the most stock build that I could, if for no other reason just to document its existence.

As it happens, this is yet another bike I've purchased that just doesn't seem to have pics on the Internet. There are older Ultras, but I can't find any with this later groupset on it. So this is me documenting it, and by the time you read this, it's been broken down and it's for sale.