that *that* is a picture... how cool... monkey riding a goat lead by a man with a handbag!
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Is Brant leaving Ragley etc?
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Posted 9 months ago #
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Is Brant leaving Ragley?
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No, hes gone already.......
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this thread needs more goats.................
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I thought Ragley was effectively a Brant one-man-band creation which used Hotlines / CRC to flog the bikes. All this Shedfire working with Ragley stuff is basically Brant talking to himself in a mirror
It's like a lot of one man outfits who refer to themselves as "we" or "our consultants" when it's one man sitting in his underpants infront of a PC.
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Brant has used the gnar of cadlerdale to shape brand and identify his products, the blue pig, mmmpop trails, even the name Ragley all hail from just over the hill.
For me the lad has vision and is attempting to do something specific that works where it has been designed, so hats off.
But how do you reverse from such a strong image, I wish him well and would buy a blue pig any day.
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Time for a little culture.
slainte
rob
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But how do you reverse from such a strong image
There has always been a strong image/ethos attached to the frame design for both main brands, which has met (or even created?) a demand , particularly in the UK.As per the 'press release', the image is there already for all (3?) brands to continue and evolve rather than reverse. Should be interesting!
EDIT: by 3 brands I'm talking about PX, O-O and Titus of course
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In the case of ragley, brant is the brand, or is that just me
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montylikesbeer - Member
In the case of ragley, brant is the brand, or is that just me
Well, so far, aye. But unless he owns the rights there's no reason that it couldn't continue under a different designer. Maybe one that draws prettier seatstays
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Possibly but TBH I have no idea what the arrangements were/are.
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the point I am making is brant has created a brand that is specific to a type of ride, shape, angle call it what you will.
The big brands don't do it on such a macro, viral level that feeds probably to a large proportion of the buyers.
Like I have said I love the look of the stuff and the fact that it has been "designed" or inspired less than 7 miles away more the better for me.
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Poor guy goes to all that trouble to find a matching forklift, monkey and goat then some **** with a magic marker tags his goat, ruins the whole thing. Same thing happen to me all the time.
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the point I am making is brant has created a brand that is specific to a type of ride, shape, angle call it what you will.
I like the fact it's been inspired by 'local' riding too but I also think it's been quite varied when you consider the movement through Inbred, Compo, Armadillo, Pompino, Scandal, Mmmmbop, Rodwell etc. etc.Posted 9 months ago # -
Maybe Brant could fix all of On One's website links where you click through and the price listed (looks too be to be true) mysteriously goes up on the landing page.
Thats google but it also happens on their own website.
Today I clicked on some Rev ti and it came up
http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/FORSREVRLTTI/rockshox-revelation-rlt-ti-dual-air-150mm-fork
I know when I've pointed this out in the past to bike retailers they've said 'oh thats google linking to an old price' but isn't google finding data still available/published on a retailers site?
Any web bods around?
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For me the lad has vision and is attempting to do something specific that works where it has been designed, so hats off.
Fairly sure it's not about creating bikes that only work in Calderdale. I'm pretty sure that he'd quite like them to work outside Calderdale too
Just to throw my totally pointless 2p in; I've never owned a Brant designed bike, quite liked the look of the Mega but didn't buy one as I needed a new frame before they were ready. He's been quite friendly online when I've tried to make contact so he seems like a nice bloke. In as much as I hope I'm happy when I change jobs, I hope the Titus thing works out for him too.
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@hora - given that there's a different, lower price at the top of the page to what's at the bottom, I don't think it's Google at fault.
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[quote]this thread needs more goats................[quote]
chevre..
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Actually I'll post this one as it's a bit more OT:
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Maybe Brant could fix all of On One's website links where you click through and the price listed (looks too be to be true) mysteriously goes up on the landing page.
Yes Hora, that's exactly what I'm going to do - seeing as the website was in such great shape when I used to run it
I have emailed Jon who will have a look at it today.
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Fairly sure it's not about creating bikes that only work in Calderdale. I'm pretty sure that he'd quite like them to work outside Calderdale too
Pushing my El Guapo up Blue Pig last night for another run down "Black Pig" I did comment to Sir James, my riding companion that maybe I ought to start doing some "normal" rides so I could see why people might want a 100mm travel XC 29er.
Calderdale influences me massively in the style of bikes, but I promise we're not going to slacken and lower everything.
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Fine goats for a morning me thinks
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Brant, Pay particular attention tot his clever young man..
ratadog - Member
I predict that in about 18 months time a load of american Titus groupies ( and from what I can see they make the STW On-One/Ragley followers look fairly non-committal ) definitely not getting why the new Titus range are called the "Cashmere", the "Angora" and the "Toys19".Not even after the explanation. In fact, particularly not after the explanation.
The "Toys19" will of course be the sort of bike you can ride through fences on and yet still pedal up dams without undue difficulty.
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I ought to start doing some "normal" rides so I could see why people might want a 100mm travel XC 29er.
Yes, you should
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A 'small person's' Inbred frame to match that goat up there, in the 29er's 'chicken tikka orange' would be nice please
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A 'small person's' Inbred frame in the 29er's 'chicken tikka orange' would be nice please
There is a small persons version of the 29er. It's called a 26in Inbred.
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Oooh, that'll get the 29er evangists frotting themselves into a furious lather!
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Brant could you ask on-one to order shed loads of the new Schwalbe Hans Dampf tire?
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I really really don't think that trying to shoehorn small people onto big wheels, especially when the small people then think they want a suspension fork is a good idea.
The angles are all wrong. You need to drive weight down into the fork to get it to work. You can't do this if you're little, and the steeper head angles of 29ers make this even worse.
Rigid 29ers can go smaller, for sure, but poor small people, usually women, with bars up around their ears, poor stand over near the front of the bike and wheel tops higher than their waist... Oh dear.
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There is a small persons version of the 29er. It's called a 26in Inbred.
Yeah, but I see no chicken tikka orange
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I'd like the follow up version from Mama's, toilet ****
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maybe I ought to start doing some "normal" rides so I could see why people might want a 100mm travel XC 29er.
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Obviously at this point I have to post Emily Batty's 29er
http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/pro-bike-emily-battys-trek-superfly-elite-30569/
That's absolute fact (™ TJ)
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