Ridgeback (bicycles)
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| Private | |
| Industry | Bicycles |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Headquarters | Milton Keynes, England, UK |
Key people | Errol Drew, Founder |
| Products | Bicycles |
| Website |
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Ridgeback is a British bicycle brand manufacturing road, urban, utility, youth and mountain models. Their bikes are distributed by Sportline UK which is owned by H Young Holdings.
History
Ridgeback’s story started in 1983, when founder Errol Drew created the first UK mountain bike.[1] Drew first spotted a mountain bike at the 1982 New York Bike Show, where he declared it “the future of cycling.”[1]
Ridgeback’s next major development was the creation of the flat handlebar road bike.
The Genesis Day One model was introduced in 2001, with the Genesis marque becoming so strong that in 2006 it became a brand in its own right.
In 2008, Ridgeback was one of the first to introduce disc brakes to its flat handlebar road range.
And in 2015 Ridgeback launched Rapide – a range of performance road bikes.
2016 model list
- Velocity
- Velocity Disc
- Vanteo
- Element
- Supernova
E-bikes – Electron series
- Electron
- Electron+
Road – Rapide
- RC3 Disc
- RC2 Disc
- RC1 Disc
- RL3 Disc
- RL2 Disc
- RL1 Disc
- RC3
- RC2
- RC1
- RL3
- RL2
- RL1
- RL26
- RL24
Urban fitness – Flight series
- Flight 4.0
- Flight 2.0
- Flight 1.0
Off road touring – World series
- Tour
- Voyage
- Expedition
- Panorama
Mountain bike – Dual Track series
- MX2
- MX3
- MX4
- X1
- X3
Town bike – Avenida series
- Avenida 3
- Avenida 6
Youth – Dimension series
- 12 Runner
- 14 Runner
- Dimension 16
- Dimension 20
- Dimension 24
- Dimension 26
Kids – Boys series
- MX12
- MX14
- MX16
- MX20
- MX24
Kids – Girls series
- Minny
- Honey
- Melody
- Harmony
- Destiny
References
- 1 2 "Ridgeback picks its five key bikes over 30 years". Bikebiz. Retrieved 2016-02-01.