Up for sale is my very much loved and will be sorely missed Ragley Ti hard tail. This is one amazing bike; I have loved it in the very short space of time I’ve had it but a big crash a few months ago (not on this bike I should add!) left me with, among other things, three fractured vertebrae. A very good friend of mine who is a consultant radiologist has taken a look at my MRI scans and basically said that unless I want to have serious arthritis when I’m older I really should sell the hard tail. So, here it is.
I only bought it in January from Nirvana Cycles in Westcot and will provide the original receipts and the documentation that provide you with a lifetime guarantee from Lynskey Cycles who made the frame on behalf of Ragley. Also included will be all the original cable guides as well as a spare pack of single cable guides. These are a very neat design with two clam like halves that grip the cable and then screw into the frame. You can chose where you put them, so cable routing is up to you.
Here’s the neat bit. I have bought a load of titanium rotor bolts and used these to fill the other holes. You need something to keep the threaded holes clear and let’s face it, steel or alu bolts with oxidise and look s**t; titanium rotor bolts may have been a little excessive, but trust me, it looks really nice.
This bike was to be my lightweight winter hard tail for razzing around the woods on. I’ve previously waxed lyrical about the Ragley Ti on here before. It’s basically a ‘take it by the scruff of the neck and rag the living s**t out of it bike’. It’s so fast over all kinds of terrain. Up, down, along in the air or on the ground. It’s an amazing frame. It’s stiff where you want it to be, around the BB area and side to side, but it still has that lovely absorbing quality of titanium that makes it comfy compared to a bullet stiff aluminium frame.
The condition is A1; I mean it’s more or less as it was when it was new. I did ride it over the winter (January to March) but then over the summer I stuck to my full suss so it’s had maybe two dozen 2-3hour rides around the (leafy and mulchy, not rocky) Surrey Hills. There is some slight cable rub that will basically buff out with some wire wool. The finish is called ‘scrappy’, which means it has a fine wire wool finished sheen; not polished, not matt, it’s a combination of the two, hence why you can buff out an marks with wire wool.
Size is small, which means it has a 16” seat tube and a 23” effective top tube. I’m basically half an inch shy of six feet tall and I loved the size; I even ran it with a 50mm stem. I am not sure why the mediums have such a long seat and effective top tube, because I believe the small is good for anyone between 5’ 6” and 6’. The smaller size makes it feel very agile and, let’s be honest, it looks the nuts! Other details:
• Front Derailleur: 34.9mm Top Pull
• Seat Post: 31.6mm
• Seat Collar: 34.9mm
• ChainLine: 50mm
• BB Shell 68mm
• Headset 1.125in standard
• Rear disc size up to 203mm
• Fork length 130-150mm optimised.
The cost new was £1100 and I am asking £650 posted. (Yes I know you can buy this frame new for £700 but you can only get them in large, which is no use to anyone outside of a basket ball team, so my price stands). The green Chris King headset and Salsa seat clamp look great on the frame and can also be part of the package if you want them to. The headset will be another £50 and the seat clamp £15. The cranks and chainguide are not part of the auction.
You can text or call me on 07966 585 892 or mail me at the address in my profile. It really is in amazing condition so someone will hopefully benefit from the fact that I broke myself pretty badly and can no longer enjoy a hard tail.
