The Falcn RS is the latest highway providing from Ridley, and it’s prepared for far more than clean tarmac. The Falcn RS was developed for the World Tour as a motorbike that may tackle the Ronde van Vlaanderen to Paris-Roubaix, a Grand Tour stage, and Strade Bianche. How? The bike is aerodynamic, light-weight, and focuses on little particulars to enhance rider expertise.
Ridley Falcn RS — What’s it?
The all-new Ridley Falcn combines the most effective of each worlds: an aerodynamic bike that’s as mild as attainable. Should you’re a Ridley fan, consider the Falcn RS as a mixture of the Noah Fasts’ aerodynamics with the burden of the Helium SLX.
Ridley Falcn RS Body Particulars
It’s mild — how mild? The brand new Ridley Falcn RS frameset is barely 110 grams heavier than its flagship climbing bike, the Helium SLX. Ridley says the frameset of our evaluate medium evaluate bike is barely 825 grams. However Ridley put a lot of the effort into making an aerodynamic and environment friendly quick bike.
Our Ridley Falcn RS Power evaluate bike weighs in at 16lbs on the dot with out pedals or water bottle cages. Our construct options DT-Swiss 1400 wheels and Vittoria Corsa Professional tires — 28mm entrance and 30mm rear.
The brand new Falcn RS underwent in depth aerodynamic analysis with the Ridley group utilizing CFD evaluation and wind tunnel testing. The result’s a entrance finish that’s tremendous aero-focused and a principal body that’s targeted on weight.
The Falcn RS has an aero tube profile, protecting the tube joints as modern and easy as attainable. The pinnacle tube is deeper to make the Falcn RS extra aero. Each cross-section of the body is aero-optimized with fastidiously chosen airfoils. The form of the highest tube is even adjusted to reinforce the bike’s stability underneath crosswinds.
The fork is new and consists of the Ridley diffuser. Ridley says this diffuser design induces turbulence within the airflow earlier than the down tube. Making it simpler for the airflow to go over the down tube and rising the strain behind the top tube. Leading to a motorbike that has 10% much less drag at 50KPH in comparison with the unique Ridley highway fork design.
Detachable Entrance and UDH Rear Derailleur Hanger
The Flacn RS can rapidly rework right into a single entrance chainring. It’s as straightforward as eradicating the chain after which the entrance derailleur. The detachable entrance derailleur hanger retains the body trying clear and the swap easy.
The rear derailleur hanger is UDH and is identical mount as others within the Ridley line, making a bent hanger a easy repair and fewer hangers within the toolbox.
To make the Falcn RS much more environment friendly, the Ridley makes use of the F-steerer expertise and a completely built-in cockpit. The Falcn RS includes a Forza Cirrus Professional Built-in Street cockpit with a short-ish 75mm attain, 130mm drop, and a 5° flare. This bar stem combo is simply the correct quantity of aerodynamics and management.
The Forza Cirrus Professional Built-in Street cockpit has 4 totally different stem/width sizes: 90/380, 100/400, 110/400, and 120/420.
Street Racing — Now with Bigger Tires
The Falcn RS is a multidiscipline highway bike, which suggests pavement, cobbles, and what have you ever. The brand new body design, clear-up to 34mm tires, and geometry permit class leaping with out downside. Actually, the Falcn RS is designed round 28mm tire use, so there is no such thing as a have to guess second bringing out the massive tires for the massive day.
Ridley Falcn RS Geometry
The Ridley Falcn RS is a completely new design for the corporate, so it will get a contemporary geo. The design combines the 2 widespread Ridley highway designs however provides a contemporary perspective to make the Falcn its machine. Ridley’s R&D division fastidiously designed a geometry that gives riders with the proper steadiness between pace, stability, and reactivity.
The pinnacle tube size of the Falcn RS is barely shorter than that of the Noah Quick and Helium for a extra aggressive driving place. The underside bracket can also be barely decrease than the Noah Quick and Helium as a result of it’s adjusted to accommodate bigger-volume tires with out elevating the middle of gravity. This decrease backside bracket provides the rider wonderful management, particularly on uneven terrain.
Ridley Falcn RS Sizing
The brand new Falcn is available in a dimension that ought to swimsuit everybody; we’re speaking XXS to XL, however keep in mind that the Ridley sizing could be barely totally different than some US firms, so select mindfully. The Ridley design group took time to make sure that every dimension provided would preserve the identical efficiency traits throughout the vary.
Ridley Falcn Construct Choices:
Ridley provides digital shifting drivetrain choices just for the Falcn RS, with Shimano Ultegra Di2, Shimano 105 Di2, and Sram Power AXS obtainable as normal choices. Further choices, equivalent to Sram Rival AXS, SRAM Crimson AXS, and Shimano Dura-Ace Di2, can be found within the Ridley on-line configurator.
Ridley Falcn RS Builds and Pricing
Ridley Falcn RS SRAM Power AXS
- Groupset: SRAM Power AXS
- Wheels: DT Swiss ARC 1400 50mm
- Value: $10,245 / €9,552
Ridley Falcn RS Shimano Ultegra Di2
- Groupset: Shimano Ultegra Di2
- Wheels: DT Swiss ARC 1400 50mm
- Value: $10,245 / €9,552
Ridley Falcn RS Shimano 105 Di2
- Groupset: Shimano 105 Di2
- Wheels: Forza Levanto DB, tubeless prepared
- Value: $8,000 / €7,459
Look again for a full evaluate of the Ridley Falcn RS this fall, and for extra data, try Ridley-Bikes.com
