thanks Brant.

I forgot to ask about weights?

Cheers Brant
A few q's though;

Baggar=steel, Troof=coke can?
Does the (20") Bluepig have a "clearance" toptube?
Will the Baggar work with a 140mm?
Are the tubing O/D's the same on the OX pig as the standard 'pig?
Are the decals on a seperate sheet still?
Have you got a frames worth of Skoosh/swoosh/looks loverly on a nice Rossendale early evening orange or whatever its called left over?

RRP's?

nobody? all the Brant fanboys on here, Eurobike's just down the road with the full range of Ragley stuff on display and nobody has any (FOC) info on the 160mm frame?

got them on my SLX's, good hoses, simple to build up and the guy at HEL was more than helpfull in sending out a load of ferrules FOC when i shortened my rear hose on a frame change.

more pics;
http://www.bikeradar.com/gallery/article/eurobike-2011-ragley-mountain-bikes-27554?img=1&pn=eurobike-2011-ragley-mountain-bikes&mlc=news%2Farticle#14

it looks like a 1980's Hutch freestyler or a DP Firebird…………..and bloody awful.

I used to wear loads of Life's A Beach clothing back in my BMX days, but then as BMX became more rider owned and street riding grew from freestyle it was all about wearing Anarchic Adjustment label stuff-dark coloured and more sinister looking than LAB had been. Stussy then took over along with Fuct stuff-a BMX buddy who started Sheep clothing the same time James Hild started Bench (another Manchester BMXer)used to bring Stussy stuff in from the states before Aspecto started selling it.
In the years since though I've worried less about what the clothing says about me and more about its performance and price.

bought loads of their stuff in TK Maxx dirt cheap, think a few t-shirts were red label reduced as well.

thepodge – Member

you mean ones like THESE

seen those but they dont really show much.

come on, lets see some proper Ragley Interbike pics

Howdens=good because they're pre built cabinets, that about it, the bloody salesmen they employ are crap-wont give you a straight cost-its like dealing with a Moroccan carpet salesman, and they still send me junk mail 2 years after attempting to buy there.

Who did surprise me was Vance Miller-kitchens from hell fame/Brits make it in China fame. Had a nosey at his kitchens at his 'showroom' in his mill before Oldham council burnt it down. Didnt appear to be bad quaility and dirt cheap.

cinnamon_girl – Member

RNP – go for it!

no I really cant be bothered to defend the rights of a 4×4 owner/user especially on STW.
At the end of the day, walker/ramblers want everything fume/tire track free-even the remaining 2.8% (or whatever low percentage) of vehicle access is available. NERC bill has crammed more and more vehicle users into less routes/areas so damage increases. Rouge/idiot 4×4 owners will chew the countryside up because they can-£30 fine IF you get caught.

Ultimatly there's too many people jostling for the rights of too small an area.

balls to it I was gonna post a long rambling reply about the rights of a 4×4 owner, but I've had it STW'd out of me.

Our Howling Moon rooftent piccy from our trip to Silverstone for the F1 last year.
Quick to setup on rocky ground if need be, no tent pegs to hammer into solid parched dry ground/sand, comfy-3" thick mattress that stays in it when folded up along with your bedding, insulated from the ground, but with good ventilation so condensation free, fine in windy contions-two large steel internal hoops and self supporting without the ladder in place.
Not cheap things though;
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breatheeasy – Member

Check out a Kona Smoke.

They've got them on eBay for £190, it comes with full length mudguards.

Spec isn't massively brilliant but I'm probably getting one as a winter commute.

+1. Loving mine.

S&M Mad dog, the first rider owned company to break away from the factory team nylon uniform days of BMX.

Awesome frame-rode everything on it-raced it, street, trails.

Also a MK1 Chameleon. The first frame to give me that BMX feel I'd been looking for in a mountain bike. Upto the Cham it had been GT Zaskars that were the closest I could find but the Cham took it to another level.

racing_ralph – Member

rnp – your grease nipple mod – tell me more

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/grease-nipple-xt-hubs

bought one for £200new off ebay for commuting duties with a view to replacing all the nasty low end groupset for deore. Used it now for 4/5 moinths, added a rack and some brand-X/CRC £15 panniers and its actually become one of my favourite bikes. Its just an honest no frills gets on with it kinda bike. I actually havnt felt the need to ditch the shifters/mechs&cranks yet, i'll replace them when they wear out-they work okay. I've done my grease nipple mod on the hubs and the wheels are still true but overall arnt the best quaility wheels.

Rolls a lot better than a mountain bike on knobblies but not as good as a full on road bike, chromo frame and 45 tyres take the edge off potholes/broken tarmac.

For £200 it cant be beaten, for touring duties however you'd have to budget a mechs, cranks, headset and wheel upgrade and see how it compares.

Sorry Dave-weathers crap up here today so not bothering tonight.

Aggroman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzGx2L70wqM

or feel my leg muscles Im a racer;

nickc – Member

Ahhh, hand wound….cheapness…

quartz, handwound, or automatic, PVD or stainless finish, supernova or tritium. strong watches that do the job and last.

is an MWC G10 infantry military watch. Can be had from £50 ish

and the link says £115..

£50;
http://www.mwcwatches.com/shop/product_info.php?cPath=33&products_id=33

habitual destroyer of watches;
Protreks are crap-broke the left hand side 'screwed' on section twice and the sensor cover once.
Swatch last a few months, cheap Casio's are ok but fail on the straps.
Longest lasting watch I've ever had (and still have) is an MWC G10 infantry military watch. Can be had from £50 ish, sapphire glass, battery hatch, expandable nylon webbing strap that can be worn on the outside of winter riding jackets.
http://www.mwcwatches.com/shop/

We go up Lee on wednesday nights straight after work get there about 6, 6-30 ish.

[/quote]Hmmmm your about 5'11 – to 6 footish, and marks only about a stone and half heavier then you….

Did you opt for the 16 or 18" frame?

you thinking of Colin again arnt you? Im 6'5" – freakishly tall and lanky.

I went for the 20" as its my 'do anything bike', sometimes a bit big/long for muscling round the tight stuff at Lee and a bugger to manual roll but nice for flat out chucking down stuff.

A 6' ish mate has an 18" Pig if your angling for a try on one.

that would be since beginning of the year Dave……

my SDG I-beam setup has been fine, had for approx 2 years, 1st on my old chameleon and since beginning of the year on my Bluepig but as Jemima posted above-the SDG clamps the seat beam for an inch or so. Mines about midway along the beam position wise so probably dosnt have too much leverage, I guess its the Kore side of things thats caused the post/ringpiece interaction.

do-able if you eat supermarket Croque-monsieur's for a week and have your beer's with your le bigmac.

If you were as buffed as Col it wouldnt have happened!

Kyle

Care to guess how much he missed out on – 2 days of work required…

….a headless jelly baby, an empty mars bar wrapper, a used on both ends cotton bud, and a picture of a dead horse?

bloody big downpour spoilt my usual wednesday night thrash round Lee quarry.

it looks nice now in its raw swoopy lovelyness, but by the time Kona paint it in some primary colour and slap some 'trendy' graphics on it, it'll look like every other crap Kona ever made.

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Earl – Member

RustyNissanPrairie – that mod looks like the dogs. Might try it out on a deore first though.
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robdob – Member

RNP – where did you get the bits to do the grease nipple mod?
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cynic-al – Member

RNP – does this get any grease into the RHS?

its all in here;

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/grease-nipple-xt-hubs

Never had any trouble since doing the mod, I grease it every few rides. I've snapped hope cheese axles and destroyed the cassette bodies hence XT 6 bolt hubs. Hope on the front though.

Hope are better from a bearing maintainance point of view-I'd rather be replacing a sealed cartridge bearing than fiddling with cup and cone setups hence my grease nipple mod, but shimano has it with strength-namely stronger axles and freehub bodies-the Hope aluminium free hub bodies are just a plain stupid idea regarding the cassette digging in.

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hope break the axles-shimano are steel. only thing is the cup/cone setup but this isnt an issue with my mod;

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/grease-nipple-xt-hubs

old school vans low tops-good enough for eddie fiola & andy ruffle and stop you looking like a 5.10 fashion victim

cynic-al – Member

Does TJ not go on about some legal explsive device for this situation?

http://www.gamekeepafeeds.co.uk/asps/resources/super/693-2.jpg

I have one on my landrover!

Ideal for sheds etc

can you not use 2 standard seatpostshims like these;
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=6258

slip the 1st one on your seatpost all the way to the top loose for now, the second one cut the collar off and possibly shorten depending on how long your seat post is and then bond it to the bottom of your actual seatpost with epoxy/araldite.

Let the epoxy cure and insert into frame, the epoxy will stop the bottom-shortened shim dissapearing into the frame.