Controversial this on STW but I thought the Sov was pretty rubbish tbh. Heavy, lumpen, and the geometry of an XC bike. Might be good for jumping etc since it’s short and steep but it’s not even in the same fight as the Ragley. We’d traded, my Ti for his Sov for a test, he didn’t look too happy handing mine back. Slackline is very nice.
Build quality on the alu and steel ragleys used to be gash tbh- like I say I owned 3 mmmbops, the last one’s paint wasn’t quite right but it was the one that you could at least say it was reasonable that it’d been allowed to leave the factory. The first one was completely pissed, it obviously hadn’t been qc’d either. As for the Pig, well they just made a load of 27.3 seatposts for it 😆 Total fiasco.
But! You’re not buying a new frame in 2010 so chances are, first owner dealt with all this bollocks. Is it someone on here? There’s a fair chance it’ll be the chap that just bought my Ti (Dan), if it is, it’s for sale because he’s upgrading not because he’s dumping.