Ribble has introduced a new titanium Endurance Ti Disc road bike to its extensive range.
The Ribble Endurance Ti Disc has a frame that’s made from custom profiled and tapered triple-butted 3AL/2.5V titanium with brushed finish detailing, with a chrome head badge.
The medium sized model has a 55cm top tube, 51cm seat tube and 15cm head tube. The stack is 541mm and the reach is 390mm. Those figures point to a geometry that’s aggressive for an endurance bike.
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The seatstays are dropped (they join the seat tube much lower than the junction with the top tube), the idea being to increase compliance and improve power transfer to the drivetrain, and you get a 44mm head tube with a full-carbon monocoque front fork and tapered steerer for front-end stiffness.
The cables are routed internally.
There is clearance for tyres up to 32mm wide without mudguards fitted, or up to 28mm if you fit mudguards using the mounts provided.
Ribble claims a weight of 1.6kg for the frame and 470g for the fork. A medium sized bike built up with Shimano Ultegra components is about 9.8kg.
The Ribble Endurance Ti Disc comes in three suggested builds – Sport with Shimano a 105 groupset at £2,299, Enthusiast with Shimano Ultegra at £3,299, and the Pro with Shimano Ultegra Di2 at £4,299.
If you prefer can use Ribble’s online BikeBuilder tool to choose your own spec based on your preferences and budget.
Here’s how to use Ribble’s BikeBuilder tool.
The frame has a three-year warranty against manufacturing defects.
18 thoughts on “Ribble releases Endurance Ti Disc road bike”
yepp, that is lovely despite
yepp, that is lovely despite the ugly disc brakes 🙂
I can’t help thinking that the average market for the bike will think that 150 at the front and a stack of 541 is a bit low without a few spacer options, not sure the ‘endurance’ tag quite helps there. However, it would be perfect for the ‘sporty’ rider who wants something a bit different from the crowd, now if only I could put up with those brakes…
Can’t belive I’m about to
Can’t belive I’m about to write this but…well, Ribble have really started to put out some tasty bikes lately and this Ti Frame, with that geometry…
Heavy.
Heavy.
Van Nick Skeiron 1.6kg in Med
Van Nick Skeiron 1.6kg in Med
Whisky parts No 7 12mm Thru axle 434g
about right for a Ti frame, the fork has mudguard mounts so I can live with the extra mass. Its not plastic fantastic it is different and personally just lovely I have already spec one up on the inter web but bar the main problem, cash! As a late 40 something who feels a bit like a old man in jeans on a full areo bike with deep wheels this would do me just about right,
Looks like the planet X but
Looks like the planet X but 500 quid more
It doesn’t, the rear triangle
It doesn’t, the rear triangle looks nothing like Planet X, or many other Ti road bikes for that matter. But that geometry is not endurance geometry. Looks like a disc brake race bike, but about 2.5kg too much.
The cable stops, mounts for
The cable stops, mounts for brakes and dropouts reveal that this frameset is made by Waltly titanium. They do custom frames directly to consumers for around 1000 dollars. Happy with mine. My 56cm-ish frame weighs slightly under 1.6 kg, so on the heavy side.
Ribble is a local business to
Ribble is a local business to me, I remember shopping in their tiny shop on Watery lane many years ago. They were known then for their slapdash bike building. A friend, against my advice, bought a bike from them, a week later he decided he needed to lift the seat post a bit. It was seized solid. He took it back and was fucked off by them. He ended up getting another shop to remove it, sadly damaging the seat tube slightly. Turned out they hadn’t reamed the tube, nor used grease, just hammered the seat post in. I know a lad who works there at their warehouse on Walton Summit, there are ten bike builders who each have to build either 3 or 4 bikes a day, so they will be rushed still without doubt.
Can’t speak for every build,
Can’t speak for every build, but I got a CGR 725 in October and I can’t fault the build on it, everything seems to have been put together well, and I’ve fiddled about with the fit eyc enough to have come across most of the kinds of issues poor assembly would likely cause. Also, I’d imagine their setup for assembling bikes is going to be fairly production line like, with everything to hand so I wouldn’t imagine it would take very long to do each one
Clearance is a little
Clearance is a little disappointing by current standards. space for 35mm tyres or 32mm with guards would have been more like it.
https://www.ribblecycles.co
https://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/ribble-cgr-ti/
Fair point, but the CGR is
Fair point, but the CGR is really a full on gravel bike.
This new model seems to be more a competitor to bikes like the Reilly Spectre (35mm clearance, 32mm with guards) and Kinesis GTD (34mm/30mm) rather than bikes like the Gradient and Tripster from those manufacturers.
Yes I aggre with you C G R
Yes I aggre with you C G R more gravel than road, I just like what Ribble have done with the the geo on this, I am no expert but if they had up the clearance then would something have had to give elsewhere?
Why only a 3 year warranty?
Why only a 3 year warranty? Any quality titanium bike should last a lifetime. That would concern me if I was thinking about buying it. Lucky for me I already have my lifetime gravel, road and MTB.
It’s Ribble. Usually the
It’s Ribble. Usually the warranty only lasts until you’ve wheeled the bike out of the store.
Titanium isn’t the magic
Titanium isn’t the magic material some say and the frames are not immortal. I’ve got one in the shed with cracks in both chainstays.
If it’s from a reputable
If it’s from a reputable builder, it will have a lifetime guarantee.
These look pretty good, the
These look pretty good, the welding especially, but it would be interesting to show how they perform in more engineered tests. Some of the German magazines I read from time to time put frames on rigs to determine numeric scores for stiffness/flex and resistance to torsion, etc. that are really quite useful (as opposed to saying that this – subjectively – is a ‘nice looking bike’ that ‘rides well’ and is ‘stiff when climbing’. Armed with this data you can then compare frames objectively.
I’m a bit suspicious about the price here. Good quality Ti bikes are generally quite expensive. I have a couple of indestructable, Paris-Roubaix surviving Litespeeds – a Siena and a Vortex – and the frames alone cost almost as much as the cheapest and most expensive built-up bikes respectively: and that was in 2003. I wonder where these were made…..?