Ridley Vintage Bicycle

[themark]

It looks like they have taken 4 cruisers built by FELT and added a chinese engine and a gas cap (in photoshop) and are charging $2000 smackers for them. Anyone know anything about the company?

Ridley Vintage Motorbikes : Models

[FileStyle]

un real!!!! the price is ridiculous!!!!!

[Easy Rider]

Wow! For that price you might as well buy a Whizzer or a SCSW Full Suspension bike.

[ebmvegan]

The bike looks really cool. A gas tank that is the frame is a really clean look. I wonder how much gas the bikes hold. It doesn't look to be a whole lot. Well, if anyone is willing to shell out that kind of money for something most of us can build at a fraction of the price, good for the dealer. I would like to see one on the road so I can pull up next to it and show the purchaser that they spent way too much.

[themark]

I'm not sure how credible these guys are... they've lifted their website photos directly from the FELT website, and have photoshopped the engine into place, and in some cases, the gas cap.

Felt Bicycles 2008

if you look at Ridley's outdoor product photos you'll notice that the gas cap, and some of FELT's graphics are mysteriously absent. I e-mailed FELT to ask them if they were affiliated, but am still waiting for a reply.

And $2000 is steep, but not as bad as Derringer...$3000+

[tyrslider]

Seems you have to bladder those frames to make the tank work as a tank. I don't think they make'm sealed from Felt.

[tyrslider]

wow that's pretty bad photoshop job. I think those cruisers are about $600 and how about their $500 motor kits?

[HoughMade]

Yeah, what a crappy photoshop job:

Ridley Vintage Motorbikes : Videos

[Clotho]

If you go to RidleyCycles you will see that Ridley is a real motorcycle company that has been manufacturing a quality product for a number of years.

I like their latest offering of the Felt cruisers very much. $2000 may seem steep at first until you consider how much work it takes to create this bike. Making the tank fuel tight is a fair bit of work to do properly. Nobody uses a bladder that I know of. Most either weld them which messes up the paint and requires heat treating or they use metal epoxy to seal them and follow it up with tank sealer which is probably what is done here. Also their motor mount is a work of art. It is CNC machined out of solid aluminum. You can see it here: Engine pic. I also see other upgrades on the bike shown such as the brass petcock and the automotive plug wire.

I think the price tag is reasonable especially if you compare it to the Derringer bikes which are really little more than a Chinese engine and paint slapped on a cruiser frame. He even uses the (shudder) hole in the frame motor mount. I feel sorry for his customers as they are truly being taken advantage of.

I know whereof I speak My Felt
I haven't accurately measured the tank capacity of my bike but I have heard that they hold .57 of an American gallon which sounds about right. My bike holds a little more than 2 litres.

Many people are not capable or not willing to build a bike like this themselves. For them $2000 would probably be quite reasonable and I am sure that this company will sell many of these

[Andyinchville1]

I do like the little touches....especially the engine mount...looks very well made.

Andrew