pegorichie dreams
 

what kind of sorcery is this?

rides like a dream. so springy, so jumpy, so suave. feels like a natural extension of my legs.

i am smitten. anyone else in the same boat? why have i not ridden these tubes before?!

https://i.imgur.com/4erGez4.jpg

For all of the advancements in frame materials, to me a nicely built bike of light steel tubing still *feels* the best to me...(nice looking bike, BTW)

Steel is real. nice bike. Whats that on the top tube?

i pretty sure they make up a part of the Goodrich i roll. And if that is the case, yes, magic. and your bike is rad, i saw a scarab recently on a festka post with Melody Farms...

Huh. My instagram world and my paceline world collide..

My Zank is Pegorichie, one of the first. The ride and handling are incredible.

I've updated the drivetrain over the years.

https://photos.smugmug.com/Cycling/T..._194632-X2.jpg

pretty sure my steel zank is pegorichie also. it is indeed a nice riding bike.

Help a brotha: what does Pegorichie mean? I've got a hunch but need the facts

Tubeset they (Sachs and Pegoretti) specced that was designed for the lugs they use (or something like that). They make them available to other builders too.

I think my steel Zanconato is also PegoRichie tubes and yeah, it's a pretty nice bike too. Here pictured with some Ergott-built wheels, which have been extremely nice as well and fit this bike perfectly.

Crappy picture, but you get the idea.

Like Eric's, mine has evolved over the years on the build as well. Not flashy, but this 105 stuff is hard to beat for performance and value.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1906/4...f6e8b34e_c.jpg

From the Richard Sachs site:

"As professional cycle racing came to be dominated by carbon-fibre, a new wave of craftsmen framebuilders appeared on the scene. Those wishing to work with steel tubes and lugs found that building frames to modern performance standards was difficult, largely due to lack of suitable materials and tube profiles. Doyens of this band of constructeurs, Dario Pegoretti and Richard Sachs, worked with Colombus to develop what became known as PegoRichie tubing – Spirit (Columbus’ premier ferrous tubeset) for lugs. Oversize round tubes and long butt profiles made PegoRichie a favourite of craftsmen builders worldwide. Now, with oversize profiles in ultra-high tensile materials – Spirit and XCR – steel can compete with any other frame material – aluminium, titanium, carbon-fibre." http://richardsachscyclocross.com/sp.../columbus.html

Yeah, my pegorichie sachs was the best steel bike I ever had. So smooth.

It's Columbus Spirit with different profiles and dimensions.

It's a graphic for the brand:

https://static1.squarespace.com/stat.../_DSC0401_.jpg

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I googled Scarab, no luck, are they still in business? Cool looking bike

I had a Zanconato with Pegorichie tubing a few years back; most of my PRs were set on that bike. Granted I was also a bit fitter back then, but nonetheless that bike rocked.

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Looks like they are in Colombia... nice looking bikes. https://scarabcycles.com/

So what you are saying is it's not Columbus Spirit :D

ColOmbia!

It’s a new builder, based outside of Medellin.

It is also called spirit for lugs IIRC

A Colombian custom bike company?? That´s freakking cool.
I am in south america and usually commute through Bogota´s airport. My experience w/ colombians is wonderfull.
They are deep into cycling w/ legendary climbers. Girls and boys ride the mountains all the time on beautifull gear.

Thank you, cool detail.

Thread should be renamed pegorichie reality.

http://2012.handmadebicycleshow.com/...-man-of-steel/

I've got a frame made with the PegoRichie Uber OS tubes and special lugs, with the matching fork with flat fork crown. Very nice. Above is a link that tells about the set.

Yes my pegorichie Sachs is a very noticeable difference from my Peg Marcelo, and your description is spot on with my perception.

New builder with some experience with an old builder. My riding buddy has one. It's a beautiful bike (both yours and his).

And, yes, Pegorichie tubes are awesome. I have two steel bikes with them and they're both keepers.

wrong window, sorry

Did they work for Tinno Cycles down there? I had been following them and their website went dead, they made some cool bikes and their prices were more than fair.

Maybe this is heresy, but I don't think you can feel any difference between high end steel tube sets. I say high end, because you need that tensile strength with lightweight tubing. So, Reynolds 853 or 953, Dedacciai Zero, Columbus Spirit etc will all behave the same. The builder can make some difference in how they select gauges, angles, butt lengths, etc.

im not sure i understand this. each high end tube set is a bit different right? I have a bike built of high end skinny tubes, and one built of high end oversized tubes and one built with high end normal tubes, and had one built with mini max tubes and each one is entirely different in feel. and yes, i could most certainly ride them blindfold and tell you which is which. i know exactly how my goodrich feels on the driveway every day vs other bikes. when you have 3/4 miles of chunky gravel at the start and end of every ride, you learn fast what forks give, what tires kush, how carbon bars change feel, how a good fork sucks up bumps, and what steel feels like compared to steel, carbon, ti and alu.

My point is: this is like saying "Reynolds 531 rocks" or "Columbus sucks". Yes, many nice bikes were built with 531, and many unremarkable ones as well.

Venerable bikes like Masi GC and Cinelli Supercorsa used both 531 and Columbus on different frames. I just don't think one brand of tube set is superior to another.

Superior is a misleading way of looking at it I think.

One particular tubeset may be better suited for a particular purpose than another. Many steel builders would use a different tubeset for a 230 pound rider than a 160 pound rider, so in that example, one tubeset may well be 'superior." I have a Kirk cross bike that Dave built for himself and used a specially spec'd set of chainstays. Builders often mix tubes from different sets. Look at the Merckx MXL bikes - they're not 100% MAX tubing. Apparently the custom builders think that particular tubes of particular tubesets or entire sets are superior to others when they are building bikes.

And indeed in this case you have Mr. Pegoretti and Mr. Sachs going to Columbus and saying, hey, we need a better lightweight tubeset for lugged frame construction and this was the result. Followed by Uber PegoRichie tubes for larger frames/riders purposes.

It feels like we're going over this at least once a month, in this or that discussion thread. It is difficult to isolate the effect of the steel only from all other factors involved in a bike's performance (geometry/design above all). There was a blind test in a major cycling magazine many years ago, in which Thron was preferred to higher spec-ed steel by expert riders:

http://www.habcycles.com/m7.html

The way I set up my bikes is much more important than the steel in the tubes. I do like to know that I'm riding a bike with top end equipment, be it the tubes, the build, or the parts. But, in the end, it is whether I'm comfortable in the long haul that is important and that has come from many decades of experimentation for my specific set up markers.

Why did you guys ever get rid of them?!?! :)

Pretty sure this bike will be in my will:

https://i.postimg.cc/pdG6VX6s/Pier-i...psztgb5ugx.jpg

Same here. I don't understand going through the custom process and getting such a great bike only to move on a couple years later. Doesn't even make any financial sense as used custom bikes take a huge hit compared to new price. My Zank and my Ottrott are the two bikes that will stay with me no matter what.

I kept my Sachs 8 or 9 years I think. It was not ridden any more. I can't stand having bikes that are not ridden, in particular great bikes.

I'm hoping to get back to riding my steel Zanconato much more in 2019. I did a few rides on it last year after the component swap and wheel swap and I was reminded about how nice it really is. The fit and handing are just about perfect. And I agree about the non-ridden bikes. I'm currently in a huge downsizing push and unridden, unused equipment and bikes are leaving my house quickly.

Mine wasn't custom-built for me in the first place. Nonetheless, I sold it to fund another project, which on hindsight wasn't the best move.

I am now riding a stainless steel frame with Columbus XCR tubing; it feels very similar to the Zank with PegoRitchie tubing.

My Rick Jones is Pegorichie tubing. Even coming from a skinny tubed thinwall planing-ophile, I think it has a fantastic ride quality.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7867/...a00be923_c.jpg

It's the pegorichie-est:

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