Ridley has two new Enviornment monitor bikes, at reverse ends of the velodrome racing spectrum. Choose the aluminum Enviornment A and also you get a no-nonsense train on the inexpensive simplicity of a monitor bike. Or go to absolutely the different excessive with the complete carbon Ridley Enviornment Quick, a pro-level monitor racer the likes of which has been ridden to set the Hour File in its earlier iteration…
Ridley Enviornment monitor bikes in inexpensive Alloy or Quick carbon
A brand-new 250m indoor wooden velodrome lately opened in Belgium simply 10km from Ridley’s headquarters on the biking well-known Zolder Circuit. Whether or not you need to race automobiles, street bikes, cyclocross, or BMX, Zolder has you coated. And now, in the event you don’t wish to chilly, moist & muddy on cross bikes in the midst of winter, you possibly can prepare and race inside on the brand new monitor.
So to have a good time the opening of Flanders’ new Heusden-Zolder Velodroom Limburg, Ridley debut two new monitor bikes.
Reasonably priced aluminum Enviornment A
In my thoughts, the Ridley Enviornment A is definitely essentially the most fascinating of the 2, since only a few common cyclists are simply going to exit and purchase an excellent high-end carbon frameset and construct up some tremendous monitor bike. However a contemporary UCI-approved race-worthy alloy monitor bike is comparatively inexpensive, and a whole lot of enjoyable.
Purchase one in all these for beneath two grand, and you’ll prepare by means of the winter on the brand new Zolder velodrome for simply 13€ per two hour session.
Alloy Tech Particulars, Pricing & Availability
The Enviornment A is an easy triple-butted 7005-T6 alloy body alloy body with subtly aero hydroformed formed tubing for max stiffness. Pair that to an aero full carbon 4Za aero fork for a stiff experience, optimized to experience in counter-clockwise circles on completely easy wood boards.
It is available in 4 inventory sizes (XS-L) with steep, aggressive track-proven geometry.
The alloy Ridley Enviornment A is accessible solely in a single full bike construct for 1900€, with an alloy Miche Pistard construct package & DT Swiss wheels. You may order one now out of your native Ridley supplier. Supply is slated for about 5-6 weeks from now in mid-December.
Enviornment Quick
Now, placing budgets apart, the brand new Ridley Enviornment Quick will almost certainly make your laps across the monitor noticeably faster. Developed in parallel with this summer time’s all-new Dean Quick time trial bike, the Enviornment Quick cuts a really comparable profile.
Maxed out inside the newest UCI technical rules, the group developed the quickest monitor bike attainable. Most significantly, the newly allowable 8:1 tubing profile rule. Designed in CFD, then confirmed within the Bike Valley wind tunnel that’s actually subsequent door to Ridley HQ, the Enviornment Quick must be, effectively… quick.
Carbon Tech Particulars
The core overarching design rules have been optimized aerodynamics, maximized stiffness, and unwavering energy switch.
Key to the aero efficiency are the deep F-tubing aerofoil shapes after all.
However the Ridley Enviornment Quick additionally inherits the F-Floor Plus grooves alongside the frontal profile of its headtube and fork. Breaking boundary layer airflow over the bike makes for smoother aerodynamics.
Stiffness and energy switch finally come all the way down to a cautious combine of 4 grades of Torayca 24-60T carbon fibers. Pair that to a tapered 1.125-1.125″ headset and a PF30 backside bracket for slim however stiff connections.
Adaptability & Most UCI-Allowable Geometry
Ridley created the Enviornment Quick as a single adaptable carbon frameset to have the ability to race throughout all monitor disciplines. Numerous cockpit setups, even forks with axle flip-chips, and naturally completely different wheelsets can tweak the Enviornment Quick for all the things from dash to pursuit racing.
The brand new monitor race bike encompasses a typical 1 1/8″ higher steerer set down into the toptube or above with customized spacers, for normal bar+stem compatibility. However after all, essentially the most aero setup is Ridley’s personal modular flush-fit 1-piece stem and base bar cockpit.
The complete carbon Enviornment Quick fork is accessible in tremendous slim 70mm hub spacing or normal 100mm. And every additionally encompasses a flip-chip on the bolt-on entrance axle. That mainly lets riders decide 35mm or 45mm fork offset for his or her superb dealing with really feel. And even thru-axle appropriate flip-chips, too.
Out again, wheel customization (and future-proofing) is identical story, with built-in chain tensioners for the horizontal fork ends. And likewise bolt-on or 12mm thru-axle wheel compatibility.
Ridley solely makes the Enviornment Quick in two body sizes (M & L). However, they are saying it provides sufficient variation to suit most elite athletes. They usually created the Giant to offer the longest allowable entrance heart dimension beneath UCI regulation, “maximizing bike size beneath present rules”.
Ridley Enviornment Quick monitor bike – Pricing, Choices & Availability
The brand new carbon Ridley Enviornment Quick monitor bike is accessible solely as framesets. So, decide from the 5000€ Dash setup with simply the body, fork, headset & seatpost.
Or decide the 6000€ Pursuit frameset. It then provides within the glossy basebar cockpit topped off with a set of Deda Jet2 aerobar extensions.
Now the limiting issue is availability.
Formally, the brand new carbon monitor bike is just not but in-stock, with no official supply date given. However, Ridley has invited professional riders, biking groups, and nationwide federations to get in contact. Purchase the brand new Enviornment Quick monitor bike, and Ridley “can provide monitor and wind tunnel testing to optimize the [rider’s] efficiency“, benefiting from the Bike Valley tunnel and new Zolder Velodrome.
