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Ritchey Breakaway 2004
I bought this bicycle for travel purposes, but it immediately became the primary bicycle I use because it rides great and I love it. Flying with a bicycle in the Post-9/11 world is a nightmare perpetrated by airlines ripping us off with outrageous "special handling fees" and TSA thugs tearing through one's possessions and then hurriedly shoving it all back together so they can move onto the next victim. The first time I flew with a bicycle after 9/11 was the last time I did so. For two years I FedExed my bike around instead, but that's not cheap, either, and requires sending the bike a day or two ahead of traveling so that it arrives on time. The Ritchey Breakaway is not the first full-size bicycle to break down and go into a special airline-ready suitcase, but it's easily the most ingenious, simplest, and most stealth solution. The "in action" shots are from the 2005 Hell Weel Texas and the 2004 Ironman Revisited on Oahu. (I also raced in Ironman Revisited in 2005 and 2007). There are also some shots of the bike stashed under the hood of my Delorean automobile. Click any thumbnail to see it full-size, then scroll through with the arrows. For the component specs, scroll to the bottom of this page. Note: I later converted this bike to 650Bx32mm tyres size, so that I could also ride it on trails Click here for a few photos and comments on that. Click here to see other bikes of mine
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