https://mtbtimeline.com/wiki/ 2026-04-23T08:44:44+00:00 https://mtbtimeline.com/wiki/ https://mtbtimeline.com/wiki/_media/wiki/logo.png text/html 2025-03-16T14:57:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://mtbtimeline.com/wiki/ritchey/start?rev=1742137022&do=diff ---------- Ritchey Overview Tom Ritchey, started building frames in 1972, aged 15, in Menlo Park, CA and raced them successfully until retiring from racing in 1976. By 1974, during his senior year in high school, he had finished nearly 200 frames. He continued building over road 200 frames per year until 1980, when he switched to mainly producing mountain bikes. By this time, he had already made 1,500 road frames.