A few times this summer folk have mentioned our New Jersey. All very positive comments for which we’re grateful. Every few years or so we have a refresh and 2022 was no exception. After more than a decade as Ridelines, we’ve had five different iterations of our instructor jersey. 

There’s been a constant feature present through all of these designs, that being of course the colour orange. We’ve had a few different shades and few different levels of coverage and in different placements, but we’ve pretty much owned it whatever we’ve settled on.

Andy started the company choosing orange as the primary colour as he used to work for “The Forestry Commission” as it was once called. (Now Forestry & Land Scotland) This was the colour of their safety gear, it could be easily seen on the landscape or in the forest and was a colour that didn’t really appear in nature, at least amongst the areas that Ridelines operated in. 

Saying we have “heritage” actually sounds weird for such a young company, but we do have a theme of sorts in our very consistent jersey history and this years design celebrates just that.

I was prompted to write this as it’s not obvious to everyone (or perhaps anyone) that far from “copying Fox Racing” or “nicking the Pinkbike Racing” colours we’ve been rocking this combination of colours for over a decade. Bringing it all together at the end of last year to settle on our current design.

The comparisons are flattering, but yeah… Check out the OG’s of orange.