have ordered one of their stems (100mm 31.8),flat bars and seatposts 27.2mm all in wet black colour for my duster .am really looking forward to getting them.how do you find their products? 🙂
Mainly through searches via Google.
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I've always got on with Ritchey parts, lighter than many, well made. Seen a couple of bars break, prefer Mt Zoom bars now, lighter as well, but their stems and posts are nice.
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Also a fan of Ritchey components, although usually use their carbon versions, have just built up a new cross bike for No.1 son with a wet black seat post.
Reasonable cost, usual quality finish and at 265g not too heavy for a long fat strong alloy post.
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I use ritchey kit on my roadbike and have the wetlook wcs stem, bars and post. I like it a lot. Also got a ritchey wcs fork and headset. I'm not a fanboy, just like my kit to match.
Looks nice but the paint on my 1 bolt seatpost flaked off badly!!! I shan't be buying another wet one!
MTB bars are far too narrow, other than that i love the stuff.
I've had a couple of WCS stems which been excellent and nice and light.
Had a (road) front wheel which didn't last very well.
Not sure about the 'wet look' stuff, why?
Wet Look?
Is that what we used to call gloss?
Is that what we used to call gloss?
Kinda, a thompson stem is shiny/gloss, the ritchey wet-look stuff is a (very) glossy paint, guess that's what they're trying to distinguish?
Used to have bar/stem/post on my MTB, no complaints.
Their dropouts are just perfect IMO though! To the extent I've discounted perfectly good bikes based on the competition haveing TR dropouts.
I simply rode C-Y-B last week to achieve a wet look to all my components.
'wet look' is just super shiny high gloss. It doesn't really look 'wet'.
thanks everyone (and apologies for the misspelling of ritchey 😳 i must admit to loving the look of the wet look aluminium components (that is the main reason that i went for it to be honest 🙂