[Closed] Ragley G6 🙂 🙂 🙂

Good 'MBR' elbows and skids there 😉

SKIDS? dryness = hard (for me) not to drift occasionally 😉

How does it ride?

nice vid
but needs more traildog

How does it ride?

Very nicely... mini-review coming up shortly.

I assume the music was picked on purpose for yesterday!

Yes, indeed it was 🙂

Must get myself one of them Ragley frames. Help to smooth out those rough looking trails.
Sorry but I could enjoy that far more on SS 29er.
I believe the terminology for this is overbiked for the trail you are riding.

Oh I had to laugh a that. The trail is dumbed down quite a bit by my unprofessional filming and the 10-or-so steep & tight switchbacks in the lower section are not included in the vid. Don't apologise David: I invite you to come and ride it any time, PLEASE feel free to bring a 29er.

Excuse my ignorance but, is the GSix a 6" travel bike?

Looks like it smooths things out nicely 😉

130mm rear travel, 160mm front travel

Loving the infomercial.

Is that the trail just outside Guildford ? 😉

Leave him be... just choose your bike and ride it, don't judge others 😉

Must get myself one of them Ragley frames. Help to smooth out those rough looking trails.
Sorry but I could enjoy that far more on SS 29er.
I believe the terminology for this is overbiked for the trail you are riding.

🙄

I invite you to come and ride it any time

Would love to, where is it?

Yeah, where is that trail?

I was thinking similar but not along the SS 29er route - the trail does look quite smoooooth and there were only a couple of sections that looked to be able to demonstrate and test the suspension. I assume the point is to promote and test the Ragley FS frame?

Very pretty though and looked fun all the same

just choose your bike and ride it, don't judge others

+1.

Help to smooth out those rough looking trails.
Sorry but I could enjoy that far more on SS 29er.

Oh, the irony!

I liked it. No matter what you're riding it's always good to be on dry dusty flowy singletrack.

What you need is a G5

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[i]Must get myself one of them Ragley frames. Help to smooth out those rough looking trails.
Sorry but I could enjoy that far more on SS 29er.
I believe the terminology for this is overbiked for the trail you are riding.[/i]

Knob Jockey.

I would like to ride that on my 160mm bike, looks great.

We still have dusty singletrack here in SE England btw, but unfortunately I'm working this morning.

Yep, the local Brighton trails were bone dry and dusty last night 😈

...and I enjoyed them immensely on my 150mm Full-Susser 😉

[i]...and I enjoyed them immensely on my 150mm Full-Susser [/i]

That is NOT possible.

...and I enjoyed them immensely on my 150mm Full-Susser

That is NOT possible.

Why? 😕

C'mon Ash, mini review!

Paceman - I think it was sarcasm, taking the mick out of the "you must do it on the smallest travel bike possible for it to be worthwhile" opinion of some posters 😉

Wors - I'll write some words down when I get a spare sec 🙂

Shame it was on a really smooth trail, if it was rockier/rootier it would have done the bike more justice, IMO obviously.

Wasn't it just a video of Ash riding a bike on some really very nice trails?

I've already inferred this, but I'll make it clearer: my filming (on me tod with a tripod and not great camera) doesn't do the trail anywhere near justice. Yes it's a smooth trail in places, but there are also quite a few fairly rocky/rooty/tech/steep parts* which I felt went some way to testing the bike.

I will endeavour to find a visibly much more technical trail for my next G6 demo video 🙂

*some of these tech bits you can see on the vid if you look closely, but many of the tech bits simply didn't get filmed

I don't believe Ash rides anything without an insane technical level of difficulty.. so somewhere on that trail will be the stuff my nightmares are made of 🙂

Sorry but I could enjoy that far more on SS 29er.

This is the stock STW cliched ****er statement - well done. 😆

edit: wow you can't even say w@nker any more? 😕

I think it was Ash's Silky Skills (tm) which made it look so SS 29erable...;)

I read about a guy who entered the Trans Provence (similar terrain / area?) on a rigid 29er, a very capable one too. I read that he bought a susser when he got back.

I'd love to ride that trail on a rigid SS 29er, but I'd also love to ride it on a 1990 Raleigh Mustang, or my 140mm bike, a hardtail, on anything really. Looks like a lovely trail.

I'd love to go riding RIGHT now actually

Nice vid. Nice looking bike, [u]Lovely[/u] looking trail. Cheers!

Come up and ride it in the Winter RH-SNOW-2.
It's a year-rounder (South facing).
Did I tell you I'm probably moving there for a bit?

Where exactly is that trail?

Vosges mountains, Northeastern France.

Vosges mountains, Northeastern France.

Oh 😯

Not as local as i'd hoped.

I've seen top level DH'ers come off some of Ash's 'slightly rough' trails happy to be alive.

Back on the subject of the G6 anyway, I know they're designed around a 160 fork, but sticking a 150mm fork on it wouldn't drastically alter it, would it?

Probably by 10 mm 😉

Thankyou for that 🙂

Sorry.

Whereabouts in the Vosges is it? up near Lac Blanc?

Wors - I'll write some words down when I get a spare sec

That would be after replying to my e-mails and getting the diaporama from the trans-P available to all of us 😉
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I did loled to people thinking riding in the voages/alpes is "easy".

juan - is that why you sat in the tent all week 😉

tut tut I have been sitting in a tent, so that the lucky people riding on the trail could go have a shower and a hot meal while someone was taking care of managing the results 😉

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I took it to some steeper terrain (the Alps) this week

Looks lovely. Right hand switchback at 0.31 lifting the rear wheel like that. HOW???

@ wors

Good balance, and front bake control.

It's a useful skill to have, for getting round really tight switchbacks.

HOW???

Know your front brake well, look, commit (... oh, and practise)

great looking trails. gonna have to get out to the alps when ive got the money.

any more info about your first video?
I stayed near Gerardmer this summer and was lucky enough to go to
la Bresse for the world cup, I love that area of france!

ok - so when are they going to be on sale and how much?

what shock will they come with?