Forget getting somewhere nice and thinking how great it would be to explore the area on a bike, looking longingly at anyone passing on a bike. Moreover - perhaps you are such an avid fixxer that any old bike suitable for travel just won’t do - Brompton’s (for suit-wearing office workers?), Dahon’s (for less sophisticated and sentimental suit-wearing office workers on a tighter budget?), Molton’s (for folks with a penchant for clever design and far too much money to burn?), roadbike in a bike box (good idea, but the box is still huge!) - no, what you want is a folding fixie in a box!

And guess what - Tom Ritchey has just the thing for you. A very neat design for a fixie frame that breaks up into two parts - the Break Away steel frame uses the seat tube to help align the two halves of the frame and features an incredibly beautiful solution locking the two halves together both up at the seat collar and at the down tube. A very neat solution that comes complete with a hard-case featuring lots of neat innovations for protecting the frame and components inside and wheels on the outside for easy manouvering. The roadie versions of the Ritchey BreakAway has had brilliant reviews in the cycling press, the titanium frame earning accolades for being a timeless, beautiful and racy frame on par with many ‘normal’ bikes out there, so can’t imagine the fixie version is going to let the side down. Tom Ritchey takes bikes seriously and it shows!