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Check out our exclusive first look of this lovely steel hardtail from Ritchey.
After a 30-year hiatus, Ritchey has brought back the Ultra, though this one is a little different to the original. It still has a lovely steel frame made from Logic tubing, but this one takes a 120mm travel fork and your choice of 29in or 27.5+ wheels.
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Hello everyone, this is Will here from
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Singletrack Magazine. We're here at
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Eurobike 2018 and I'm in the Ritchey
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booth and I'm joined here by Mr. Jeff
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Lockwood.
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Hello, how are you?
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I'm very well, thank you. How are you?
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I'm fine. Do we ask the people out there
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how they are?
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How are they?
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Sounds awesome.
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Great, fantastic.
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it. Yes, it's it's good.
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So we're winning already.
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We're always winning, especially when we
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have a brand new bike.
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Yes.
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Uh I guess we should talk about this
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this bicycle that's in front of us.
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talk about bikes, we can talk about the
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atmosphere, we can talk about work.
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Let's talk about the bike, shall we?
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Okay.
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We're British, so we should probably
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talk about the weather.
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The weather? The weather here is very
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nice. It's warm, it's not too hot.
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Quite pleasant.
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It's nice, yeah. I had to drive down in
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the rain, though.
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Uh it's okay, but there's mountains
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here, so I like that, too.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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And we're at Eurobike, so that's great.
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Eurobike, yeah. And uh there's beer
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waiting for us when this is finished.
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That's that's good incentive to speed
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things along.
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Quick. So this is the new bike.
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So you
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Should I go first or you want to
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Please, please tell me what's the model
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name? What sort of bike have we got
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here? What Describe it.
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This is the Ultra. Um the name comes
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from there was an Ultra from Ritchey
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about 30 years ago. Um it was like a
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dual mountain bike and what we're doing
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with this is we're combining the the
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benefits of our cross-country P-29er and
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the uh
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the uh the Ultra I'm sorry, not the
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Ultra, the Timberwolf uh 650B. Um and
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what this the the main idea of this bike
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is
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uh
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it's a combination of something for
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cross-country riders who want something
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more rowdy to have fun on or Enduro
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riders that want a more of a trail bike,
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trail ride. And what this bike does,
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too, uh right now we have a 650B. These
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are 2. Uh 2.8s but 6 it fits 650B by uh
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3 or 29-in by 2.4.
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Right, so it's it's dual dual wheel size
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compatible.
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Yes, it's very adaptable. Um it's it's
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very niche and of course it's like So
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normally those bikes have suspension,
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this has a steel the beautiful ride of
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steel, the beautiful quality of steel.
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Yeah. With our with our own logic
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tubing, so it's a proprietary steel
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tubing.
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So, it's a So, it's not quite a
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full-blown cross country bike, not sort
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of long long travel hardcore hardtail,
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somewhere in between.
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That's exactly correct, yes. So, it's a
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killing two birds with one stone,
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really. Yeah, if you want to use a
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ugly metaphor or a cliché, both of which
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I don't like, but it's a it's okay.
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Uh what uh what travel sits on the
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front?
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Uh 120.
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120 mil?
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Yeah.
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So, 120 mil fork, you can run it with 29
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up to 2.4 or 27.5 up to 3-in wide tires?
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Yes.
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And uh tell me about the color.
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The color is black. We have a a flat
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black with a nice
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nice blue. That's uh it's very very
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dynamic. We love the color.
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Dynamic?
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Dynamic, yes. We're calling it a
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something slate. That's the the the the
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name of the color. Yes.
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Still working on it. This isn't quite
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ready, is it?
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It's not quite ready. In fact, we're
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just showing it here. Uh the official
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launch is at Interbike in September. The
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bike will be available in October. So,
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so those are the details we're giving
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away now.
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Excellent. So, uh few Ritchey fans out
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there, return of the Ultra name for this
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new trail hardtail, this steel trail
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hardtail. Uh so, I guess we'll wait for
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more information in September.
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September, yes. So, please check back
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fairly often. We'll have more
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information then. Yeah, but we'll we'll
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we'll we'll have a nice event in in
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Interbike.
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Uh we'll have a ride. Uh Tom will do the
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ride, and uh
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we'll have all the details about the
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bike by then. So, Singletrack riders,
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readers, this is a very exclusive for
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you guys cuz not a lot of people know
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about it. So,
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Hot off the press right here.
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That's it.
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Jeff, thank you very much for your time.
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Sweet. Shake. Thanks.
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Tearoo.
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