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.

[2] Ridley boasts of having developed the fastest time trial machines in the world with the types Dean and Noah, which were created after intensive wind tunnel tests.

[3] These tests led to findings for a new wheel series, the future aero speed technology - FAST for the road.

[5] Ridley bikes are currently owned by Belgium company, Race Productions, who also bought out Eddy Merckx when the company was struggling in 2017[6] Media related to Ridley Bikes at Wikimedia Commons This article related to a bicycle manufacturing company is a stub.