Nothing like a bike collaboration to kick off the week. Ornot, Stinner, and Ritchey have come together to bring a clean (for now) cross bike to fruition. It’s hand-made in Santa Barbara CA, and painted to match Ornot’s cross team skinsuits. Also, Ritchey’s new front end makes it’s first debut…
Stinner Frameworks built up the steel cross frame by hand, with each step recieving the royal treatment. The tapered headtube goes from 1-1/8″ to 1-1/4″, and gets paired up with Ritchey’s headset/fork combo. This is the first bike we’ve seen with Ritchey’s new full carbon disc fork. It gets a 12mm thru axle and fits up to a 40c tire – though it can run a 15mm thru axle as well with a different set of inserts and a separate axle. It pairs up with their new headset and inmolded crown race.
Ritchey is fueling the cockpit and wheels, and spooling up their WCS Apex 38 disc hoops to keep it rolling. SRAM Force CX1 makes up the drive train and hydraulic brakes. Cable routing is all external, cleanly routed along the bottom of the frame. Though it’s full length housing so that should keep the shifting happy. This bike was custom made for the collaboration, but if you want one for yourself they could probably make it happen…
