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..."pot(t)amus style" as charlie cunningham called and ordered it in the early 80s from steve potts - for some of his frames where he/customers didn`t invest in CC stems or forks which was also a way to speed up delivery and overall buildtime for one of C´s bikes at the time - side effect ? some cleaner finishing than the typical "personal complete full custom aluminum frame with forks_steelwork" of cc, which usually only got reserved for himself and his bikes aka extra smoothed welds on frame and forkdropouts etc framedetails and fork dropouts apart from his very first series of painted bikes usually didn`t get that much attention and afterwork in eye pleasing details for his customers when compared to Steve`s work.

Sandy Hague
i agree. charlie was far more frugal regarding brass..
https://www.facebook.com/groups/927406034014215/permalink/1729304703824340/

Charlie nodded when he saw too much brass/ somewhere, since it makes the bike/frame construction not only more beautiful (which in the eye of the beholder is..), but also heavy when junctions add up ....

#instaworthy
#overly decorated
#fillet_for_days
#ritcheybullmoose as seen on a handful of early CC 80s #hambikes
#Hippopotamus ?


Anyhow there's more history to Charlie C. & T. Ritchey combined bikestory
unlike other frames which got upgraded with wtb parts since the company was established, here Charlie himself used some Bullmoose bars on a few of his early bikes. The other way around was rare and typically not promoted by the other frame builder (rivalry ?). Anyway some people were more than sure about Charlies brakes being the best of examples, so those and "Type 1/2" forks were typically customer choice retrofit enhancements. Best example of that in 1981 Gary Zaphiris Fisher who had both done to his early "Ritchey Mountain Bike"
https://fotos.mtb-news.de/p/2669529?page=3&in=set

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