Comments on: Ricardo MTB Tourer

By: SSS

SSS — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:12:00 +0000

No idea why you would pan Ricardo’s so harshly, your being a bit Elitist I think. I have a number of these and they are great bikes. Mine certainly don’t hold me back on group rides or any of the major climbs up and down around Brisbane’s Northside. Nothing wrong with Tange cr-mo tubing, easily as good as Reynolds and Columbus. Also you forget that up until the late eighties these were Australian made to boot.

By: Spiny Norman

Spiny Norman — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:53:00 +0000

Really outstanding.

By: mudplug

mudplug — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 19:34:00 +0000

+1 for the paint job.
It’s given me some inspiration for re-spraying a bike as this year’s winter hack.
Note that I’m in the UK which is why I’m already collecting ideas for my winter hack – just because it’ll be cheap and disposable doesn’t mean it can’t be fun and personal. I’m thinking of variations on snow-camo colour palette.

I’m currently using a disposable MTB in Autumnal yellows / browns / neutral matt colours for blitzing round the green-lanes and BOATs (or BsOAT for grammatical correctness.)

Likewise +1 for underdog bikes and substantially modifying them to suit a specific purpose.

By: Benjos

Benjos — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:45:00 +0000

I love the paint job! As someone who restores a lot of old road bikes thesedays for friends and family .. often simple, honest cr-mo and hi-ten frames, I applaud your efforts! Just goes to show you don’t need a rare Italian frame to make a good honest bike that you can have lots of fun on.

Will be checking out your blog to try and work out how I can try out that paint effect in future Cheers!

By: Francis

Francis — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:10:00 +0000

I have a lot of time for these honest hardworking steeds! reminds me of my similar experience touring with a muddy fox courier comp tourer conversion, albeit pretty vile in lurid green. It was super robust, super comfy and heaps of fun at fully laiden downhill break neck speed:)

By: HB

HB — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:31:00 +0000

Gets my vote.
nice appropriation.
That paint job takes me back – I can almost smell the bike/skate shop I frequented in 1988.