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Rough riders

ravel, gravel, everywhere, which leads us all to think… is there anything new under the sun? Take Tom Ritchey, he of the eponymous components. As a teenager in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ritchey and his pals were busy riding road bikes – you guessed it – .

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