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An independent thinker who doesn't necessarily follow the trends! Good to see you have your own practical opinions about bikes & riding. Steel bikes last a long time. As for them rusting from the inside out you can always spray a rust inhibitor inside the frame tubes. Rim brakes are perfectly fine, anything stronger is likely to send you over the handlebars in a panic stop. Guess who's pushing disc brakes & electronic shifters? The manufacturers make a bigger profit off of these "advancements".

Dura-ace 9000 has to be one of the best looking grousets ever made, especially the crankset. HED Ardennes are peak mid 2010s. Awesome bike all-round, truly timeless.

"I out brake anyone who is on disc brakes" lol, you're killing me George!

Love seeing the diff bikes George!! Please keep showing your diff bikes! And also - take us on a "gravel" ride with one of them 🙂 And thank you for singing the gospel of the alloy rim brake. I've never felt that my brakes were any worse than discs when I've compared them. They do have a diff feel, but the stopping power always felt about the same.

"Oh no external cables, rim brakes it's a mechanic's nightmare!" ME :o) man I need that bike!!

That rim surface is a great idea. I found with traditional machined al rims, when brand new, slivers of aluminum would strip off and get embedded in the brake pads. The embedded slivers would then scrape and scratch up the rim surface when braking. Kool Stop pads would solve this, softer compound wouldn't strip off the al slivers, but new bikes with new rims don't have the Kool Stop pads.

Man, this is just class a cycling content ! Keep up the good work. Love it.

DA9000 and Ritchey Logic… pure class!

Love Your Ritchey Logic Light Steel bike! Own a 1987 Bianchi Limited Ultegra 600 Down tube Shifters with 7 speeds, Rainbow Edition. Rides fast in classic comfort!

that's one sweet ride!

This an awesome bike!! Love Ritchey so much! (also a proud owner)

I have the Ritchey Logic in grey/yellow. Not my favorite color scheme, but the bike still rides like a dream. Full shimano 105 5800 series, except for the brakes. I switched to TRP rim brakes because it allows me to fit 30mm Schwalbe One tires with a couple mm to spare. I just installed a Selle Anatomica leather saddle and I’m never looking back. This bike was my wedding gift to myself. I bought it to be my forever bike.

great looking bike

I have this same bike with Ultegra components from that era. It just looks so fricken good with all of the different shades of grey. I typically ride my outback but this is inspiring me to go ride the Road Logic tomorrow. Thanks for the vid!

Love this frames paint and decals.

Awesome bike, enjoy your content, the most honest guy about rim wheels vs carbon wheels

Love the Ritchey Road Logic + Hed Ardennes Black - I envy you

Well done!

ah great. I think I want one now for my daily structured workouts that I do both indoors and outdoors 😂 Will keep my Orbea Orca for special and/or race days only.

Hi George, my brought my road logic at the end of 2017 here in the south island of new zealand. I run 28mm tyres and it is used mainly road but easily handles gravel. Gets used for time trials using bolt on aero bars and tt wheels and love beating the guys on tt bikes. It's a great all round bike which is used for all my training. Only reason I don't race it is the colnago needs to be used for something.

That is such a beautiful bike! I wish they still offered a rim brake version of this frame (only disc available on the website). As someone who currently owns a few bikes with disc brakes I completely agree with you-a good set of rim brakes stop better than anything and they’re easier (for me) to adjust and maintain!

Just bought a 2020 Anniversary addition with the Baby Blue paint. Like new condition with less than 100 miles on it. Was on ebay for much less $ than what it was new. I could not believe it. With only 150 in the world, I will hang onto it and advise my children to use it as wall art when I am gone. I may run it as a Single Speed (40-18) for several years. But at age 61 now and 10-15% grades all around me I'll probably at least put a 1X on it by 65.

Very excellent for a 2014

As an old roadie just getting back into the sport. I thought your comment about rim brakes vs disk was very interesting. I have old rim brakes on my roadbikes but I'm considering disk on a mountainbike. I also like that you carry the pump. I recently used the CO2 shot for the first time on a repair that got me home but the patch only held for a bit and was dead the next day. Another advantage of the pump. I'm going back to carrying the frame pump. I'm very curious about your wheels. I haven't ridden any carbon wheels but where/how can I get those aero covers? Can you just add them onto normal aluminum box type rims? What type of tire and tube do you run/prefer? I'm currently on rene herse and silka tubes but wondering about tubeless on the road. Lastly, love the Ritchey style and steel is real. I just did my first cyclocross race and there was a guy with a very nice ritchey fold up bike there. He got lots of compliments on the bike.

Steel is my kind of deal! :D

Its a beauty George! Nice Chris King head set is the Ritchey head set les superior ? I have thomson seat tube wich is ok but would like to swap it for a Ritchey. Carbon seatube would it be more comfy?

George, how do you climb with such tall gearing, I’m running 50/34 with 11-30 to 11-34 on my bikes with gradients of 9 to15……am i a softy?

nice bike. I love steelbikes and their classic look. I ride a veloheld icon. Do you use any particular framepump? Im on a search for one and my frame doesn't have these steel nobs to put the pump in place

nice bike, what are size are u? cant decide between a 51 or 53cm for my logic, im 5.9!

Great video and thank you for it! How do you feel the frame size of the logic compares to a more typical compact frame? (Hopefully my comments don’t end up on your stupid comment video!)

I’m not sure if you mentioned already but what width are your tyres and what sort of clearance is there? Thanks

George - I have a Wabi steel single speed bike w/ alloy wheels & Tektro rim brakes. Could you pls recommend one or two options for replacement pads? (I live in the SF Bay Area, so dry conditions.) Thx!

Great review, mate. Selling my Cervelo to get this instead but never has a steel bike and worried about rust. Any advice? Thanks

Hi George, Nice bike! I build myself last year a Road Logic V2 grey and yellow with rim brakes. I went for Sram rival 1X 42 and 11 36 cassette . I know you won't like 1x setup :). For my place, this gear spread is ok. I know there are some limitations with 1X but up to now, no issue to follow my club mates in sunday morning rides. With some simple alloy Mavic Ksyrium wheels it rides really nicely. Not a single pain in the neck or back after a 200km ride. Simple, reliable, great handling, what to expect more of a road bike? To compare, I tried a CF disc brakes endurance bike for a ride, and...how to say... not bad, efficient, but not as funny as the Road logic. As you mentioned in another video about endurance bikes, it was like riding a bus :) Thanks for your channel, always interesting videos.

Correction: they made titanium breakaway bikes until a few years ago. Apparently it was difficult for them to control the quality at their overseas factory since titanium is harder to work with.

Sadly, not available as rim brake version where I live. I'd love to have an all mechanical, rim brake build of this.

I bought a road bike last year, my first one ever. I wanted an aluminium frame one, the guy of the shop asked me how much I wanted to spend and I told him. He said for that money I could buy a carbon frame bike that they lowered prices a lot and I listened to him. I still regret it, carbon frames are garbage. My next bike I don't want a single carbon piece, fork included. Fuck plastic

Any HEDs you would not rec.?

I mean seat post

George I suggest you watch your own video on RU-vid. This one skips and repeats every two min.s or so. One of your other video's did that as well. Is it a server problem??? Just a heads up. Good content here

If someone at Ritchey reads this: Please, bring this exact frame with Direct Mount brake mounts and pre-drilled holes for Di2 cables. Everything else is perfect.

The reason people think they need discs is because they're more profitable for bike manufacturers. Anything that's more profitable will be pitched to gullible consumers.

You are not likely to get new viewers by mocking the ones you had.

What size is the ritchey.