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Ribble releases Endurance Ti Disc road bike

UK brand adds new titanium model, and you can opt for either a standard build or choose your own spec

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.

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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.

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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 £2,299Enthusiast with Shimano Ultegra at £3,299, and the Pro with Shimano Ultegra Di2 at £4,299

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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.

Get more info on Ribble’s website. 

Mat has been in cycling media since 1996, on titles including BikeRadar, Total Bike, Total Mountain Bike, What Mountain Bike and Mountain Biking UK, and he has been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. Mat has been road.cc technical editor for over a decade, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer. Now over 50, he's riding road and gravel bikes most days for fun and fitness rather than training for competitions.

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Chris Hayes | 4 years ago
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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.....?

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mtnbikerva1 | 4 years ago
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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. 

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Rik Mayals unde... replied to mtnbikerva1 | 4 years ago
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It's Ribble. Usually the warranty only lasts until you've wheeled the bike out of the store.

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TheBillder replied to mtnbikerva1 | 4 years ago
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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.

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Chris Hayes replied to TheBillder | 4 years ago
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If it's from a reputable builder, it will have a lifetime guarantee.  

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MrB123 | 4 years ago
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Clearance is a little disappointing by current standards. space for 35mm tyres or 32mm with guards would have been more like it.

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60kg lean keen ... replied to MrB123 | 4 years ago
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MrB123 replied to 60kg lean keen climbing machine | 4 years ago
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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. 

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60kg lean keen ... replied to MrB123 | 4 years ago
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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? smiley

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Rik Mayals unde... | 4 years ago
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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.

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RobD replied to Rik Mayals underpants | 4 years ago
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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

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Teun_2 | 4 years ago
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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.

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VeNT | 4 years ago
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Looks like the planet X but 500 quid more

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WDG replied to VeNT | 4 years ago
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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.

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Prosper0 | 4 years ago
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Heavy. 

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60kg lean keen ... replied to Prosper0 | 4 years ago
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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,

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mcvittees73 | 4 years ago
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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...smiley

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bobbinogs | 4 years ago
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yepp, that is lovely despite the ugly disc brakes  1

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...

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