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We’re pleased to announce, after over a year of development that we’ve finally completed production on our first “normal” bar and stem set.

Ragley Stubbing Stems are available in 50, 55 and 60mm reach, in four colours, with two graphic options.
CNC’d to our spec from billet alloy, hand polished, blasted, anodised, and graphic’d with an included top cap, we’re delighted with these.
Price will be around £50.

Ragley Wiser Bars are in four colours, 25mm or 38mm rise, and a 720mm width.
Intelligently butted, formed from one drawn length of 7075-T6 tubing, custom bent to our spec (6deg up, 9deg back), they’ll be around £35-£40 retail.

In the shops from late August.

I thought I ought to write some words – http://www.ragleybikes.com/our-products/td-1/

After meeting up with Mark Lynskey the other day, we can reveal that our new frame, the TD-1, will be completed in a couple of weeks, and shipping to us, by air, for the first lucky customers. Which means we really ought to tell you what it is, so we can sell some.

An unashamedly specific design, the TD-1 is a “rigid only” 29er. Meaning you can’t run suspension forks on it.

Well, I suppose you could, but it would handle awfully. It’s designed around a 440mm fork – which is a common size for 26in wheeled bikes – but a 29in wheel fits in there just fine. Typically 29in bikes run 470-490mm forks, and so by running the shorter fork, we can lower the handlebars by 30-50mm. Which means a more racey position. What’s that? You don’t like a low racey position? You want a suspension fork? Well hey, I guess this isn’t the frame for you.

But, if you’re fed up with bars-in-the-air, bouncy forks, and just want something pure and rigid and fast, then here’s something for you. Race proven too – our races Dave and Jase got 2nd and 3rd at the ludicrously tough Strathpuffer race earlier in the year, riding their pre-production prototypes.

And as we mentioned Mark Lynskey up at the top, and though we do have plans for a steel version (and it will be a high end steel version, as this is a race bike, not a plodder), and might even throw some 7046 at an alloy version, it’s obvious that this first model (as we seem to often do around here) is a titanium model made by Lynskey Performance in the USA. It features their sliding dropouts, a horizontally ovalised top tube, a curved seat tube (better tyre clearance in short stay mode, and better front mech positioning too. We even got two bottle cages on the small frame, and so though mtb-forum-grumps reckon the “Seat tube mounted bottle looks like it will rub the frame.“, we don’t think it will.

Over on mtbr, we’ve been having a “bit of a chat” about it too. Though after doing the conversion to US dollars (as most posters there are American), someone from the UK got a bit upset about us selling it “cheaper in the states than it is here”. The sum is simple:-

UK Price = around £1200
Without VAT – divide by 117.5 and multiply by 100 = £1021
Into Dollars  multiply by 1.49 = $1526

Actually, it’s just occurred to me that depending on when Hotlines paid for them, we might have to hike the price up a bit, as we pay for them in dollars, so if the pound falls, then it’ll cost us more. But I think we’re not too far off there… And the example of “how stuff costs 17.5% less” for folks outside the EU is still true.

Right – all that before 7:15am in the morning, and I’m just drinking Taiwan Oolong Tea – no coffee. So excuse any missthakes. Cheers!

Oh yes, that’s a point – sizing…

3 sizes – 16, 18, 20. 18in has a 24in top tube, 4in head tube, 72 head, 73.deg seat. 16in is half an inch shorter, 20in half an inch longer (and has a half inch longer head tube). Usual sizing rules apply (5′10″ to 6′1″, you want an 18in – bigger or smaller than this, and you want to go up or down a size). BB drop is 2.5in, and chainstays sit around 17.3in fully forward with a half inch backward movement possible for bigger tyres/chain tensioning purposes.

The blue ones are painted. The green ones get painted next week. Anyone that’s pre-ordered will get theirs air-freighted in, and should see them mid October.
Can’t believe it’s taken so long, but others can’t believe we’ve done it so fast. Here’s the first full production 18in frame that we built up for an MBUK test.
Nice to see that, just as I planned (honest) a Cane Creek Double X Flush headset thing (an internal 1.125in headset that fits in a 1.5in headtube with a zero stack) works with a 2010 Revelation and lets you run 150 forks with the same axle/headtube height as 140s.