founded 1997 1997 headquarters belgium key people jochim aerts products bicycle and related components website http www.ridley bikes.com ridley bikes was started in 1997 by jochim aerts a frame builder and painter who had been producing frames for belgian bicycle companies since 1990 . in a few years ridley became the market leader in belgium for racing bikes . citation needed the belgian bike builder is especially proud of its customizer and pure line . customers can choose the colors of their frame and personalize their bike . contents 1 bikes 2 sponsoring 3 references 4 external links bikes edit ridley has divided its website into 3 parts road contains multiple subcategories aero in the 2016 collection they had the noah fast noah sl and noah stiffness to weight a product range that targets the climbers . very light frames without comprising on stiffness is their motto . endurance bikes developed to survive cobblestones and bad roads . tt and tri bikes allroad ridley launched the x trail . a bike that can bike used for road and offroad tracks . offroad this categorie contains mtb s en cx bikes . sponsoring edit ridley bicycles used by the lotto soudal cycling team at the 2016 tour of britain . it has always been a key part of ridley s product development to create a strong alliance with their teams not just providing them with bikes but working on a very close basis with the riders and the team mechanics to develop their models . the sponsored teams compete on stock frames which enables ridley to test under extreme riding conditions . this is ridley s core development program to ensure that a well refined product is launched to their customers . feedback from the teams fuels the next generation of ridley bikes . uci protour or uci world tour road teams ridley has sponsored in the past 2005 davitamon lotto 2006 davitamon lotto 2007 predictor lotto 2008 silence lotto 2009 team katusha 2010 team katusha 2011 vacansoleil dcm 2012 lotto belisol 2013 lotto belisol 2014 lotto belisol 2015 lotto soudal 2016 lotto soudal cyclocross teams ridley has sponsored in the past 2004 2005 spaarselect 2005 2006 fidea 2006 2007 fidea 2007 2008 fidea sunweb projob 2008 2009 fidea sunweb projob 2009 2010 telenet fidea sunweb projob 2010 2011 telenet fidea sunweb revor 2011 2012 telenet fidea sunweb revor 2012 2013 telenet fidea sunweb revor 2013 2014 telenet fidea sunweb napoleon games 2014 2015 telenet fidea sunweb napoleon games 2015 2016 telenet fidea sunweb napoleon games 2016 2017 marlux napoleon games ridley bicycles are distributed in the us by quality bicycle products and in canada by norco . 1 references edit zinn lennard may 2009 . putting the quality in your bicycles pdf . velonews . competitor group inc. pp. 91 92 . retrieved 2009 12 28 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to ridley bikes . ridley official site katusha team blog this article related to a bicycle manufacturing company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ridley bikes & oldid 740246755 categories cycle manufacturers of belgiumcompanies of belgiumbelgian brandscycle manufacturer stubshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parametersall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2012commons category with local link same as on wikidataall stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran aisnederlands edit links this page was last modified on 19 september 2016 at 23 11 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view