{"id":62257,"date":"2024-04-19T04:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T02:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/87c0a882-fda6-4a4b-b255-6966f88f7250"},"modified":"2024-04-19T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T03:01:00","slug":"new-paris-brest-paris-tested-ritchey-montebello-randonneur-bike-has-dynamo-light-routing-and-custom-steel-tubing","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/cyclingplus\/rss_feed\/new-paris-brest-paris-tested-ritchey-montebello-randonneur-bike-has-dynamo-light-routing-and-custom-steel-tubing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Paris-Brest-Paris-tested Ritchey Montebello randonneur bike has dynamo light routing and custom steel tubing"},"content":{"rendered":"

New $1,599 steel frameset available from August <\/p>

By Jack Luke\n <\/p>

Published: Friday, 19 April 2024 at 02:25 AM<\/p>

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The Ritchey Montebello is a new lightweight, fast randonneur-style steel frameset for long-distance riding, spotted at this year’s Sea Otter Classic in California.\u00a0<\/p>

Featuring 36mm tyre clearance with full-cover mudguards\/fenders or 40mm without, the bike also has mounts for a front rack and dynamo lighting<\/a> \u2013 key accessories for serious audaxers.\u00a0<\/p>

Ritchey marketing manager and keen audax rider, Fergus Liam, tested a prototype Montebello at Paris-Brest-Paris \u2013 a gruelling 1,200km randonneur event that runs every four years. <\/p>

The bike is designed to fit full-cover mudguards. – Jack Luke \/ Our Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>

Full figures weren\u2019t available at the time of writing but the geometry is slightly more relaxed than the Ritchey Road Logic and Road Logic Disc, to better suit endurance riding.\u00a0<\/p>

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This seat clamp design is used across several of Ritchey’s bikes. – Jack Luke \/ Our Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>

The Montebello is built with Ritchey\u2019s proprietary triple-butted steel tubing, with the brand’s signature fastback-style seat cluster and custom thru-axle flat-mount brake dropouts.\u00a0<\/p>

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Weight-reducing cutouts were added to this latest iteration of the dropouts. – Jack Luke \/ Our Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>

The latter were updated last year and are now used across all of Ritchey\u2019s road and gravel disc framesets.<\/p>

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Ritchey dubs this handsome sparkly finish ‘Tapatio red’. – Jack Luke \/ Our Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>

The custom-forged 1-1\/8in head tube is machined to reduce weight. Headset bearings fit straight into cups on either end of the head tube.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

The frame is paired with the all-new Brevet fork, which will also be available separately.\u00a0<\/p>

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Unlike the similar WCS Adventure Fork, the Brevet fork is slightly slimmer and only features two threaded bosses. – Jack Luke \/ Our Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>

In addition to mudguard mounts, the rack features two threaded bosses on the outside face of each fork leg. These can be used to mount a rack or additional bottle cages. The brake cable is routed externally but dynamo cables are routed internally.\u00a0<\/p>

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The silver finishing kit is a great match for the red paint. – Jack Luke \/ Our Media<\/figcaption><\/figure>

As with Ritchey\u2019s other bikes, the Montebello is only available as a frameset. It\u2019s expected to be available from August in all territories for $1,599 (international pricing TBC).<\/p>

Ritchey Montebello key details<\/h2>
  • Steel road bike designed for long-distance audax and randonneur riding<\/li>
  • 36mm tyre clearance with mudguards, 40mm without<\/li>
  • Mudguard mounts<\/li>
  • Front rack mounts<\/li>
  • 27.2mm seatpost<\/li>
  • 68mm bottom bracket<\/li>
  • Heat-treated, triple-butted Ritchey Logic steel tubing<\/li>
  • Forged and machined straight 1-1\/8in head tube<\/li>
  • Custom flat-mount dropouts<\/li>
  • 100×12\/142x12mm thru-axles<\/li>
  • $1,599<\/li><\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n
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