Ridge Racing Lo Pro 56cm

I have a Ridge Racing Low Profile frame from Columbus Cromor for sale. Ridge Racing was a high end specialist bike shop on the Holdenhurst Road in Bournemouth in the eighties and nineties and was regarded as the pinnacle of bike shops at the time.

The frame is particularly unusual because of the curved top tube and the seat stays joining the seat tube ¾’s along its length as you rarely get these two features together. It is built for a 650C front wheel and 700C rear wheel. The rear brake cable is internally routed through the top tube and the frame is drilled for allen key fittings on the brakes . It looks like a Cinelli Aero fork crown and has braze on fittings for the gear levers. No braze-on for the front mech so this will be clamp on. Water bottle bosses to the down tube only.

It has a 56cm centre to top seat tube and 54cm centre to centre top tube and has 126mm rear dropouts, which is suitable for anything up to seven speeds. It will fit anyone of medium height with average leg length ie.31” to 33” and with adjustment on the seatpost and handlebar stem will suit many people either side of those dimensions.

The paint finish is a sky blue with flame effect overspray on the top tube, ‘RIDGE RACING’ stickers to the seat and down tube and interesting silouhette of the rear end of a bike to the ‘RR’ on the head tube. It also has the Columbus Cromor stickers to the frame and fork blades and some ‘Campagnolo’ stickers.

It has the usual marks you would expect from a frame which is 20 years old. These are mainly on the back of the fork blades and there is one to the top end of the down tube. It has no dings or dents and is structurally sound. The one lug for the seatpost clamp has been bent in a little but still works fine.

Can send detailed photo’s on request. Now on eBay.

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pinnacle of bike shops in bournemouth or the world
just want to get some clarification of that first paragraph

nice looking frame by the way

Yeah I want that. A lot. Any chance you can make it larger?

sometimes it sucks to be tall :(

Back in the late 80's there was far less globalisation and if you wanted a top frame you would go to the local bike shop and a bespoke frame would be ordered from the local frame builder. And the same LBS would supply all the top end components to go with it. So it would have been the 'pinnacle' of bike shops amongst the local cycling fraternity, but probably would have been on par with the best of the rest in the UK also.

Hope this explains.

Wow if I had the money I would buy this!

In some pictures I have shown the frame with wheels which are not included in the sale.

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Hey Retro_Velo,

I'm in the nursery so can't message you but I came across this frame whilst looking for lo pro inspiration on here and realised it's the frame I've just built up. Wondered if you'd be interested in seeing her finished?

Cheers,
Amber

I don't know about RV, but I would!

There's also a dedicated lo-pro thread to show off your work.