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  Ragley Blue Pig pricing and availability

  Getting lots of questions about this.
  Will aim to confirm this week.
  RRP circa £250 (that’s £217+vat for overseas people)
  In shops around 60 days or less (TBC tommorow)
  Post size: 27.2mm, Seatclamp: 29.8/30mm, Front mech: 28.6mm.

  Geometry – as per other Ragley “Calderdale New School” numbers – here.

   TRADE ENQUIRIES VIA HOTLINES. Ragley Bikes will be available through a limited range of dealers, supporting the full range. 

  ps: Ragley Ti should be available sooner than this, and Ragley mmmBop (alloy 7046 model) will be available shortly afterwards. MORE NEWS SOON. Keep coming back, you know you love it. Or sign up for the mailing list (which I really must find out how to use).

  shedfire 3:59 pm on April 19, 2009 | 10 Comments | # |
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  New Ragley website

  http://www.ragleybikes.com/

  shedfire 8:38 am on April 19, 2009 | 5 Comments | # |
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  What should I do?

  Begin forwarded message:

  From: XXXX XXXXX

  Date: 18 April 2009 19:30:54 BST

  To: brant@tweakbikes.com

  Subject: Ragley Blue Pig

  Hi Brant

  Been looking everywhere for geometry like this, also really like the design of the frame. Thing is I can’t wait another 2 months or so for it to be released.

  When’s the earliest I can get my hands on one? I’d take a demo or sample frame if there is the option (18inch)?

  Cash is burning a hole in my pocket and my frame needs replacing ASAP – I was going to order a 456 but spotted this.

  Cheers
  XXXX

  07976 XXXXX

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  shedfire 7:24 pm on April 18, 2009 | 3 Comments | # |
  

   
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  CEN 14766 key tests passed

  

  

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  Just got word back from our frame factory in Taiwan, that SGS (who do testing) confirm that our steel Ragley Blue Pig has passed the CEN 14766 test.
   
  The vertical pedal loading test is for 100,000 cycles (so that proves the chainstay bridge and dropouts are solid), and the horizontal fatigue test (50,000 cycles) shows the strength of the front of the bike.
   
  It’s actually my first experience of this testing, as previously I’d done things by “send a fat lad down a hill for a few years” or “if it breaks make it a bit thicker”. I’ve heard many stories of steel frame manufacturers having issues with this test, so I’m really chuffed we’ve got it nailed so quickly.

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  shedfire 8:26 am on April 17, 2009 | No Comments | # |
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  Nukeproof Bar Final – shipping soon

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  I guess this’ll be my first proper production item that’s for sale from Shedfire. Distributed, as with the Ragley stuff, by the lovely chaps at Hotlines.

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  shedfire 8:19 pm on April 16, 2009 | 8 Comments | # |
  

   
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  Ragley Ti graphics layout

  

  We like it better this way. Shades of Grant Peterson. Who is a hero of mine, though I’d never admit it sober.
  And I’d still like to meet Pineapple Bob.
   
  If you get even half the references in this post without the use of Google, then I’ll give you a free pack of beef jerky (when we work that deal out).

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  shedfire 9:04 pm on April 15, 2009 | 3 Comments | # |
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  Ragley cable guides

  

  

  

  

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  shedfire 9:14 am on April 15, 2009 | 7 Comments | # |
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  Ragley Blue Pig with the welds still hot

  

  

  

  

  

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  Just in, first shots of our chromoly frame, with our factory burning the midnight oil. Off to SGS now for CEN testing. Gusset under downtube and externally butted top tube, with the transfer gusset taking some of the pressure off the downtube joint alone, reinforcing the headtube so it doesn’t bend – that’s the theory!

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  shedfire 5:56 pm on April 13, 2009 | 15 Comments | # |
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  Ragley Blue Pig incoming

  I should have my first (well 2nd actually) sample in a week and a bit. The first sample we saw in Taiwan I’d got a bit carried away with wall thicknesses.

  Sample landing has:-

  4130 double butted chromoly, including my coolest ever tubeset (externally butted top tube, get in!)

  Same funky dropouts and chainstay plate thingy (that I still don’t have a name for).

  Sample coming in a burnt orangey sort of colour.

  Name is Ragley Blue Pig.

  Price circa £250ish.

  27.2mm post, 1.125in headset, 68mm BB shell, 135mm rear spacing, 29.8mm seatclamp.

  Not sure whether it’s going to have bolt on cable guides or not yet. Perhaps not.

  The Blue Pig is a downhill from Heptonstall to the Blue Pig Working Mens Club in Midgehole. Local favourite.

  http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/142539

  More soon!

  shedfire 9:56 am on April 11, 2009 | 10 Comments | # |
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  Cable guides, 3rd revision. Check.

  For a brief time yesterday afternoon, all of the Ragley’s cables were going to go under the downtube. I asked Ed to come around and see what he thought, he slapped me, and I put ’em back like they were.

  Then in a moment of “does it have to be like that”, I’ve revised it again, and now have all three control cables/hoses under the top tube, and then the disc brake hose routing under the seatstay to the chainstay mounted caliper. To work right, the brake caliper needs an adjustable banjo connector. It works perfectly about 80% of the brakes I checked out the other day and 100% of the ones I’d actually consider using.

  Keeps the downtube and chainstays clear. We’ve got some lovely CNC’d cable guides coming, courtesy of Ginger Shen from the Yozu Metal Company.

  Lynskey are on with water-jetting dropouts and other parts – a slight revision to the seatstay brace too (for their welders sanity) and we’re looking good for production.

  Oh, and the steel and alloy samples should be in transit this time next week. We can’t wait!

  shedfire 7:54 am on April 8, 2009 | 25 Comments | # |
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