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We’ve been “knocking around” (as they say around here) with Nigel Page for a while now. He’s Team Manager at CRC Intense, and with CRC being the biggest Ragley dealer (after The Bicycle Shop in Skipton), we sort of ended up chatting a bit back. Since then, he’s ridden some trails with us, I’ve ridden some DH with him, which resulted in me trashing his Intense Socom and ending up in hospital.

To make it up to Nigel, I sent him a Ragley frame and parts, and he’s built them up. He called yesterday to say he’d “ridden 10miles to the quarry, ridden the new slopestyle course, ridden home again and was knackered”.

Here’s his post from http://myragley.com/

We love our frames, but we’re always keen to see what people who’ve bought them think. Chain Reaction Cycles have a reviews database, and we’re starting to get some feedback on there.

Heres the Blue Pig reviews – we were sorry a few slightly ropey welded frames got out in the first batch, but from feedback we’ve got that nailed now – if anyone’s unhappy, get in touch.

And here’s the mmmbop reviews – all sounding positive.

If you’ve got a Ragley product and want to give feedback, then please add it to one of the Ragley products on this page (wherever you bought it from!).

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Nial on the Ragley Ti from Ed Oxley on Vimeo.

Here’s Nial on the Ragley Ti sending it at Storthes Hall downhill tracks. The snow was down and the ground was frozen hard. Nial is 12.

Ragley supported rider Jason Miles (aka Terrahawk) reports on his experiences of the Three Peaks “hardest cross race in the world” – http://40psi.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/3-peaks-cyclocross-2009/

Jason (and team mate Dave Powell) were racing the first Rodwell cyclocross frames in the country. They’re now in stock at Hotlines, ready for the cross season, or the winter commute.

Dave’s report is here – http://www.twinklydave.com/?p=492

What bike would you ride?

Just a quick email about my new works bike. As the Pennine Bridleway Ranger I get a bike for patrols, surveys etc. I used to have a Specialized Epic but as this was about 5 years old it was cheaper to get a new bike than repair the old.
I saw the article in Singletrack about the Ti frame but this was out of my budget so I had Blazing Saddles make me up a Blue Pig.

It’s a brilliant bike, all of the time for  riding round the local tracks and trails. It has a really nice balance and poise that’s flatters you on your favourite trails and helps you out on trails you don’t. The low speed balance is fantastic especially good for climbing up round Calderdales rocky rooty tracks.

Bill Brady
Pennine Bridleway Ranger

More pics here – http://www.flickr.com/photos/shedfire/sets/72157622446186246/

Ragley Blue Pig owner Jackson Reid got positively pestered on his first outing…

I’d put the bike against a fence when we went for a pre ride coffee. I have honestly never seen a bike get so much attention at Glentress – normally you get a few looks but crowds of people were right up at the bike giving it at once over, someone even picked it up!

I’ve attached a pic of the bike as it was getting built – I’ll try and get some more action shots but at the moment I can’t be arsed to stop and take pics as I’m enjoying it so much.

Phil Dowling has posted a nice blog update about his Blue Pig frame. We think it sums up quite a lot about the bikes, and cuts through some of the puzzlement that people have… Blue Pig’s aren’t just a “long travel hardtail” – we’ve actually given quite a lot of thought to every bit of them – from the tube profiles to the seat and head angle geometry. Anyhow… Phil writes:-

My new ride, been missing a bike for just razzing round on.
These frames are awesome and i’m loving mine. It’s built from steel (Ti & Alloy are also available) and features a slack head angle to get the most out of the 140mm forks ability and to keep the steering right for natural type riding, slow and technical.
Now the main issue with slack head angle is normally bikes climb like crap BUT they’ve thought of that bike sticking in a steep seat tube angle to put your weight and body in the right place, you end up riding alot more weight on the fork but without that “over the bars feeling” similar to my 69er really keep your weight forward and smash through stuff!
I’m still learning how to ride it (big fork and gears…very strange) but am quickly starting to love it and i’m looking for steeper nasty stuff to chuck it down.