Originally Posted by
gomango
Your Ritchey looks great and so practical.
FWIW I gave up on "vintage only" over five years ago. I started riding modern mtb's and it was game over.
Note that there's a difference between giving up and giving on
only vintage, for those keeping score at home. And I agree. There's a place for both in our quivers.
Originally Posted by
repechage
Are the "flying" buttress sweeps hollow? looks like they might be from here.
Great name, they really do appear to be inspired by Gothic architecture. And I can confirm that they are hollow.
Originally Posted by
noglider
What's a cage type fork?
That's a fork that is stored in a cage.
I should have capitalized the term, Anything Cage. Changes the meaning of the sentence from how you read it, of course. Rather than low riders and panniers, this allows you to attach most anthing, sleeping bag, compression sack, etc. to the forks, and has become either a fad or a new thing for bike packing (itself a rather new term).
Here's an example (shamelessly stolen pic from the interwebs):
