We’ve seen quite a lot of bikes make the most of 3D-printed titanium in recent times, however this new Ribble Allroad Ti is possibly the primary such bike that’s really inexpensive. Actually, it appears to be like like it’s cheaper than many standard titanium bikes, whereas incorporating the glossy curved traces and clean integration you most frequently see on the newest carbon bikes…
Ribble Allroad Ti 3D-printed titanium street & gravel bike
Ribble developed the brand new Allroad Ti to prime out their versatile all-road bike household with a mannequin that mixed the glossy traces, top-tier efficiency, and integration of carbon with the unrivaled journey really feel, compliance, and forever-durability of titanium.
“Designed to maximise and improve the distinctive journey qualities of Titanium with an endurance focussed geometry to ship uncompromising efficiency, velocity and flexibility.”
– Jamie Burrow, Ribble’s Head of Product
This new 3D-printed Ribble Allroad Ti isn’t totally new to us, the truth is although…
We acquired a sneak peek of it as this prototype at Rouleur Stay final autumn with speckle-painted carbon parts and glossy purple ano Hope particulars. But now, lower than a 12 months later, it’s accessible, in inventory for customizable builds, and extra inexpensive than we had anticipated.
However whereas many different manufacturers have reserved 3D-printed ti for his or her ultra-premium bikes (learn on for extra of that), Ribble appears to be like like they’re utilizing the tech to optimize building and maintain their costs in attain. They described the good thing about the 3D-printed tech as permitting them to “create shapes with a excessive strength-to-weight ratio dealing with extra multi-directional masses, in addition to permitting you to place materials precisely the place you need it to cope with particular stresses versus taking materials away” such as you would with standard CNC-machining of body connections.
Profiting from a few of the aero-shaping options of Ribble’s prime carbon Extremely street bikes, the Allroad Ti provides in additional relaxed endurance geometry lengthy days on the bike, and larger 35mm tire clearance for consolation over all street surfaces.
Distinctive UB-2 adjustable aero carbon handlebar
The highest-spec Allroad Ti bikes are also the primary to incorporate the wild shapely new Ribble UB-2 carbon handlebar that debuted on the ti prototype final fall. In any other case, it’s a 475€ improve over the usual alloy bar, however is probably going solely appropriate with digital shift drivetrains.
The UB-2 bar options distinctive shaping with position-adjustable direct mounts in your levers (versus standard bar clamps), clean transitions from hoods to the bar with out the necessity for bar tape, and “wake turbines” to clean airflow off the again of the bar.
The marginally flared drops are ergonomically formed and have grip texture molded in, however may also be wrapped as much as the lever our bodies.
Tech particulars
- welded from 3AL-2.5V titanium formed tubing and 3D-printed components
- headtube with printed-in headbadge, headtube junctions & seattube cluster fashioned by way of additive manufacturing
- hand-brushed & -polished uncooked titanium end exhibits “delicate traces of the maker’s mark” distinctive to every body
- max 35mm beneficial tires. spec’d with 32mm tires, and Ribble specifies that some 38mm tires additionally nonetheless match
- hidden full-coverage fender mounts (32mm tires appropriate with mudguards put in)
- T47 outsized threaded backside bracket will increase stiffness and enhances energy switch.
- built-in seat clamp for proprietary D-shaped aero carbon seatpost
- 2 standard units of water bottle mounts
- totally built-in inner cable routing
- flat mount disc brakes and 12mm thru-axles
- 5 inventory body sizes (XS-XL)
- claimed 3Al/2.5V titanium body weight of 1700g (all weights for Medium body), plus 470g full carbon fork
Ribble Allroad Ti – Pricing, choices & availability
Let’s begin with that elephant-in-the-room affordability. Issues are all relative right here. And the “Hero +” construct that Ribble is utilizing to indicate off this bike remains to be a lot out-of-reach costly for many cyclists at £9800 / $11,580 / 13,375€ with its Dura-Ace Di2 & upgraded carbon Zipp 353 NSW wheels at a claimed 8.7kg.
However the excellent news is there are many far more accessible choices.
Actually, full Ribble Allroad Ti builds begin at simply £3500 / $4135 / 4780€ with a mechanical Shimano 105 2×12 groupset and alloy wheels (9.9kg). 105 Di2 begins at simply £4100 / $4845 / 5600€ (9.3kg).
Whereas there are absolutely cheaper entry-level all-road bikes on the market, you’ll be onerous pressed to seek out extra inexpensive full ti bikes at that value. And definitely not cool, swoopy-looking 3D-printed ti bikes. For comparability, Sturdy’s Riadh, Moot’s Vamoots 33 & J.Laverack are ~2-3x extra, No. 22’s Reactor Aero possibly 4x extra and a 12 months away, and the Pilot Seiren nonetheless hasn’t even hit the street but.
Now, each Ribble Allroad Ti bike is constructed as much as order within the UK, so consumers can choose and select which parts are most necessary to them, and the place they will save a little bit of coin. The framesets are in inventory although, so order one at this time and Ribble says they may ship it in 2-4 weeks’ time.
