Tom Ritchey
Tom Ritchey (born 1956) is an American bicycle frame builder, Category 1 racer, fabricator, designer, and founder of Ritchey Design. Ritchey is a US pioneer in modern frame building and the first production
mountain bike builder/manufacturer in the history of the sport. He is an innovator of bicycle components that have been used in winning some of the biggest
cycling competitions in the world including the
UCI World Championships, the
Tour de France and the
Olympics. In 1988, Ritchey was inducted into the inaugural
Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in
Crested Butte, Colorado (now located in
Fairfax, California): and 2012, inducted to the United States Bicycle Hall of Fame in
Davis, California.
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