


He has been defining and designing the man I’m meeting now since a very young age. The bike might be the clef de route but the man can’t get cornered in the simple diamond form. Tom is: the racer, the builder, the father, the engineer, the inventor, and the explorer. Inside Tom Ritchey, and inside us all, are many personae. So I’ll give you the personal one too.” – Tom Ritchey I could answer that question on a public side and tell you I just love riding my bike and being by myself and all (…) That would be an authentic answer but it’s not the whole answer of course. “I have a public self and I have a personal self.

In it, you might not find all the details of the next frame that he is working on but you may find a better understanding into what it took for Tom Ritchey to become Tom Ritchey. The following is just a casual conversation. Rather, he’s a whole library a labyrinth with many alleys, chockfull of stories, where everything splits and branches like the best network of singletrack, and there are no cul de sacs. Tom Ritchey is not what you would call an open book.
