NBD – finished my CRC Ragley

Lots of bits from CRC, with a few not so cheap additions. Comes in around £1600. Really happy with it. Hopefully get to ride it tomorrow, but a ride up and down the road, it feels sorted. Tan walls won’t be for everyone and the steeerer will get trimmed when I’ve had a couple of rides

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Great bike and you have good components. As a fellow Big Al rider I suggest keeping the steerer uncut for a few months. I cut my steerer a tiny bit short and regret it, should have ridden for a few months then trimmed it.

That’s really nice. I almost bought those Pro Horizon wheels….

Yeah. That’s nice!! Bet it rides well!

What saddle is that?

Looks great.

Never really sure I sold the BigWig when I had one.

What saddle is that?

Nukeproof Horizon Enduro

Looks lovely and am sure it will be a lot of fun. Great build and some good component choices. Enjoy!

Lovely looking bike and good looking build 😁

(Leaves need sweeping, and a drop of patio-magic wouldn’t go amiss 😉)

Bit porkier than I thought it was going to be – coming in around 32lb with pedals and tubes. 

God knows what the steel Ragley’s with cheaper components come in at

Nice bike

Needs more photos

🙃

Nice build (for a blade 😉). I like the tanwalls. Used to hate them but they’ve won me over. Not that I own any.

It’s a burly fork so I’m guessing there’s a fair bit of weight there. Are they heavy duty tyres too? Ditch the tubes!

And it looks fantastic. What length dropper did you manage to fit?

Prefer tanwalls on a darker bike but they look good on that. Nearly finished a Bigwig build myself just waiting on some hub adaptors.

And it looks fantastic. What length dropper did you manage to fit?

Cheers

200mm Brand X. It fits slammed too 

Sweet ride!

What is the bash guard chain device?

It looks ace

Ian

What is the bash guard chain device?

Nukeproof Horizon mate, same as all the other bits 

Thanks dude

Looks ace

Surprised by the weight, mine is almost one kg lighter with 36,1900 wheels, NX cassette, same SLX but no tubes and 800g tyres.

Sure your scales are accurate?

Or perhaps mine aren’t although I did weigh the parts individually on kitchen scales….

Reminds me of this I had in 2016

We did not get on apart from a day at BPW where it excelled (apart from battering me) brilliant for dicking about in the woods but for long XC rides I felt like it was the wrong bike.

Surprised by the weight, mine is almost one kg lighter with 36,1900 wheels, NX cassette, same SLX but no tubes and 800g tyres.

Sure your scales are accurate?

Or perhaps mine aren’t although I did weigh the parts individually on kitchen scales

Iirc yours was without pedals – they weigh 420g. My tyres are 980g each, so there’s 780g total. Add in tubes, I’ve got pretty heavy duty ones

Forks there’s not much in it, but my wheels are 100g lighter

Dunno, that’s just picking it up by the saddle with some digital luggage scales, not sure how accurate they are.

Had another pedal a bit further and feels quite sluggish riding down the road, so the tyres may get swapped. Not sure about tubeless yet – every ride where we have tyre issues, it’s the tubeless guys. Had years on the ebike with no problems running tubes

We did not get on apart from a day at BPW where it excelled (apart from battering me) brilliant for dicking about in the woods but for long XC rides I felt like it was the wrong bike.

It will be mostly shorter rides (10-15 mines) tbh usually with a good dose of techy DH, so kinda built for a purpose.

Ebike will still be my regular ride (when it’s fixed)

Very nice. 👍

I was very tempted by the Big Al frame in white. Didn’t have enough parts kicking about to bite the bullet. Went with a Scout complete build instead which will be tweaked if needed.

It will be mostly shorter rides (10-15 mines) tbh usually with a good dose of techy DH, so kinda built for a purpose.

Perfect 👍

Had to go and ruin it with a mudguard 😭

Burn the witch !!

just weighed my Marley and it comes in just below 30lbs

Not sure why mine is such a big pig then – could be iffy scales, can’t just be down to tubes, surely? It does feel like it’s over 30lbs though just picking it up

Tubes? Why?

Tubes? Why?

Not sure about tubeless yet – every ride where we have tyre issues, it’s the tubeless guys. Had years on the ebike with no problems running tubes

And every other bike I’ve had. Very rarely get punctures. Yet every few rides or so there’s one of the tubeless guys burping, or splitting a tyre and borrowing a tube off me.

I did say to myself I’d give it a go with this bike, just couldn’t be bothered faffing for the first time when I was building this up – might do it next week

That’s an absolute belter, good work!

What mudguard is that?

What mudguard is that?

Muckynutz

If you don’t get puncture then you probably don’t need tubeless.
Personally when I was running tubes I was getting a puncture every other ride on the South Downs.

Since going tubeless 8 years ago, I got one.

Never had any issues, burping, leaks or damage either. Perhaps sheer luck?

Setting up doesn’t take any/much longer than a tube nowadays.

Nice bike.
Any would think there’s a shop somewhere selling discounted Nukeproof kit 😉.

Wish I’d bought a new set of wheels now.