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Ragley visits Singletrack
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Ragley meets WMB
Brief trip out this afternoon to meet up with Guy Kesteven (words) and Russell Burton (pictures) from What Mountainbike (or maybe it was MBUK, not sure).
Me and Ed took the 16in and 18in ones out for them to have a play on, and they bashed them up and down Pecket A (the local track that comes out by the toilets in Hardcastle Crags.
They’re going to do something more in-depth soon, but this was a “first ever” shoot – we really should get those [brand] stickers done 🙂
More pics on Flickr
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Top of the Hill and Back
Regular readers (do I have any?) will know I like nothing more than riding to the top of the hill and back. And infact readers of Singletrack magazine will see me talk about it in their latest issue too (where I am apparently a “contributor”)
As I said in Singletrack – the top of the hill and back is my litmus test for me and my bikes. I’ve cleaned the climb in 32:18 on a 29er. I’ve groveled up it in 22:32. I’ve pushed up it on my 24in wheeled Jump Gimp (that was a while ago).
Today was the day for Ragley Ti to experience the fun trip, and it didn’t disappoint. Cleaned the climb from above the steps up Sunny Valley (first), cleaned the last little steep climb before the flat bit before the gate (not done for ages). Hauled up to Hades, with particularly nice out-of-the-saddle action (I think it’s the short stem that does it).
Coming down was even better. I need a 36t ring on there, the speed you can get up. Just laughable fun and whippy and stable, and “I can’t believe I’m riding like this after a week and a half off”.
Put a new line in on the track that nobody else rides down to the telegraph pole on the corner.
Now I know you’d assume I’d always write this, and you can imagine that I make this shit up to hype product, but I don’t. We pushed the numbers quite hard on this – it’s quite edgy. Bits a bit longer, bit slimmer, bit fatter, bit shorter, bit slacker, bit steeper… and it’s worked. It is balanced and different and fun, and now I’m going to have to give it to some journos to test. And I don’t want to.
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Pics
![Ragley Ti 18in pre-production sample without [brand] graphics.](http://www.shedfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ragley18_1-300x225.jpg "Ragley Ti 18in pre-production sample without [brand] graphics.")
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Ragley Ragged
Ragged in Ragley and Ramsden Wood. Works good. More later.
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Sounds like “bollocks” to me
Taiwanese and Chinese people often adopt and English name to let stupid westerners do business with them easier. We were out in the company of Wei Hau (Pazzaz) the other night and decided that it was all wrong, and so asked if we could have Chinese name instead.
After looking us up and down they decided that I should be called this, as shown, which seems to be pronounced “bollocks” and is something to do with a racehorse. Better that than the first one they thought for me which was “ta ta ta”, or “blah blah blah”. And Chin Chin means cock in Japanese.
Heading out of here in 4hrs and I land back on mothers day, home about lunchtime if the trains work. Save some rain for me. I’ve missed it.
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Development Issues
It’s odd when you are 6′ odd and ride bikes in a certain way. You think you have it all covered, then some shorty on a 29er points out something you hadn’t really noticed.
The problem is the fix adds 15% to the cost price.shedfire
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Bars For Billy
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New Frame Pic
The Ragley
New, Titanium, Exciting.
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Just bought one of these
And this afternoon I’m going to tell Mark Lynskey I want to make a frame to go with it 🙂
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![Ragley Ti 18in pre-production sample without [brand] graphics.](http://www.shedfire.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/ragley18_1.jpg "Ragley Ti 18in pre-production sample without [brand] graphics.")
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