Type Private Founded 1983 Products Bicycles | Industry Bicycles Key people Errol Drew, Founder | |
Headquarters Milton Keynes, England, UK | ||
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.
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History
Ridgeback’s story started in 1983, when founder Errol Drew created the first UK mountain bike. Drew first spotted a mountain bike at the 1982 New York Bike Show, where he declared it “the future of cycling.”
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.