-
Ragley Ti
My Ragley Ti purchased from 18bikes now built up…
-
idiot day
Yesterday must have been some kind of ‘Let’s a ll drive like knobheads’ day. I rode a regular route from here across to Oldham, Stalybridge, Glossop, Hayfield and over to Macc via some big ‘orrible climbs. It was pouring with rain, it was getting dark and it was very windy.
With this in mind I was using my brightest lights front and back and was also wearing a bright orange jacket. No matter, everyone was denying my existence anyway, pulling out, pulling across, turning left in front of me, the usual bollocks. One woman wound her window down to demonstrate with her stinking potty mouth just how much class she had after I had shouted “NO!” at her as she strarted to drive her car across my path.
It must be the fact that these people are sat in the safety of their cars that they think it’s ok to shout abuse, wave fingers, ignore cyclists because if they did this to someone face-to-face they’d probably get a slap.
Eventually I left the pillocks and their cars behind and arrived at the proper hills. It was completely dark by now and the wind had picked up. The horizontal rain had also returned and stayed with me until I reached Prestbury where a cottage pie was waiting
My toes were frozen – time to dig out the overshoes again….
-
Benji@Singletrack Magazine’s mmmbop long termer
-
Yeah – @nuke_proof flat bars – 760mm wide
-
If Ragley did adverts, we’d probably do one a bit like this.
-
Thumbs up, elbows out, from the guy that knows
Conclusion of a few months of testing of our Carnegie’s bar has appeared on cult site Twenty Nine Inches…“If you want more sweep in a trail worthy bar, you really don’t have many choices. The Carnegie’s Bar delivers with toughness, good looks, and a great design that functions well for aggressive riding.”
The bars are available at Ragley Dealers.
-
Time to push on
It’s about time I got back into regular ‘big’ rides after a couple of months of short(ish) rides, turbo training, running and sometime quite frustrating levels of inconsistency. What I need right now are regular doses of several hours off road, more than a couple of smaller loops linked together requiring a bit more planning, plenty of hills, a good deal more effort and spare batteries for the lights. Last night was quite large, getting on for 4 hours, 3 regular rides spliced together to form one big endurance training extravaganza. For the full Strathpuffer training effect it was also cold, damp and quite foggy (foggy on the moors anyway).
To give me an extra kick up the arse I rode the ‘maybe-to-tall-gear’ Uber-Niche Ghetto 96er Singlespeed and set off along the road and then onto the cobbled tracks to Birtle. I knew the climb was going to be horrible but luckily I managed to reach the top of the hill without pulling a back muscle despite the need for some brutal bar-wrenching and weight shifting to maintain traction. The mud-fest that used to be Scotland Road needed to be walked along in parts, which was a shame as in the summer this is a pretty good descent but I was eventually on the moorland track above Nangreaves and heading up towards Edenfield. Down into Irwell Vale, across the road to climb Robin Hood’s Well to Holcombe Moor then along the rocky track to the Maggot Farm. The persistent rain this week has turned the little streams that run across this trail into raging torrents of water – ankle-deep (No way was I riding across them) and with a current. Awesome.
By now my brakes really were non-existent, the organic pads in the front brake were being worn away at an alarming rate (I’d forgot I had organics in there to be honest), after braking more than twice I was having to stop to adjust the calliper. Eventually I just gave up on this and instead got my foot ready to do an emergency unclip to brake with that instead. Just as worrying were the funny noises emanating from my freehub….
Just as I got to the road to start the final leg of the ride, my main lights packed in, leaving me with just the helmet lamp to guide me through the late night traffic. My spare battery for the HID lamp seems to have a loose connection again. That was handy. Grrr.
I arrived home just before midnight, drank a pint of chocolate milk and went to bed…but not before I’d watched a video clip of me at the Manx End to End that was broadcast on Sky Sports 3 the other night. Amy very kindly posted it on the Internet, Brant then put it on the Ragley site. 6 seconds of fame at last. I’ll get to see the whole programme eventually, with any luck
-
WE R ON’T TELLY :: “It’s Jason Miles from Ragley Bikes”
-
Voting Plea!
Our Blue Pig got nomimated for “Best New Bike” in the Singletrack reader awards – You can see them here – http://www.singletrackworld.com/reader-awards/
If you could vote for us, that’d be fab. Thanks.
-
BikeRadar :: First Look :: Mmmbop
“Ragley have definitely delivered an outstandingly direct, top value assault on the hardcore technical trail bike market with the mmmBop.”That’ll do us! Read more here – http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/just-in-ragley-mmmbop-23813
If you like the sound of that, you can buy one here.
Latest News
November 15th, 2009
Ragley
-
Hit The North 2
What Doesnt Kill You...
Date:17th July 2010
So why not sign up?.. It won’t kill you. Giants Seat Campsite, Ringley, Manchester, M26 1DY. Hopefully we’ll see you on July 17th.