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Afaik, there‘s two RIH brands. The famous RIH amsterdam bikes have the word amsterdam in their logo. And there‘s a second RIH brand with the RIH logo without the word amsterdam in it. The latter brand resulted from a sale of the name rights or something along those lines. They produced rather large numbers of bread and butter bikes - saw quite a few of them when I lived in the netherlands. OG Rih bikes on the other hand are very sought after, particularly in the netherlands since the frame builder has built for the national team and many other professionals. My guess would be that yours isn’t an original one because of the mudguard eyelets and generous clearances. Still a great rat though and if is indeed a real RIH you made an incredible deal a that price :)
Edit: here‘s the full story https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIH
Pps: this one in the hands of the man himself looks a lot like your frame so it seems like it‘s the real deal!
Sig_Arlecchino-
Cheers for the info, great photo, as far as I know, cheap Rih were by Fongers (Groningen) during the 60's and then the contract moved to Cové(Venlo) in the 70's.
Despite the roomy clearances and eyes on the Campag ends mine's definitely an Amsterdam frame number (9231) and both the headtube badge and downtube sticker are marked Amsterdam so it's a good-un!
Rik_Van_Looy
Indeed, top quality, but so understated.