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Ribble's new alloy e-bike(Image credit: Ribble bikes)
Ribble has expanded its e-bike offering with new derivatives, catering for those riders seeking value and the gram counters.
If you desire a Ribble e-bike but don’t want to extend your budget, there is the Endurance AL e. This is an aluminium e-bike with many of the aero shaping frame details you’d find on Ribble’s premium composite bikes, but with a more affordable alloy construction.
Although the Endurance AL e is heavier than an Endurance SL e Hero, it still manages to be a very light e-bike, at only 13kg.
The most noticeable difference between Ribble’s carbon fibre and new aluminium e-bike frames, in appearance, is the seat stay design. On the carbon fibre e-bikes there is a slight straitening of seat stay, as its bridges to join the seat tube, whilst on the aluminium versions, the seat stays trace a straight line between the rear dropout and seat tube.
Ribble is marketing the Endurance AL e at £2,799.00, with a build that uses Shimano’s 105 R7000 2x11 drivetrain, rolling Mavic Ksyrium S 25 wheels fitted with Continental Grand Prix GT tyres.
Ribble's new lightweight carbon e-bike (Image credit: ribble)
Alloy with all the aero
The brand’s existing Endurance SL e is now viable in a Hero build. Featuring some choice components, Ribble’s product team has managed to make the carbon-fibre Endurance SL e credibly light, at only 10.5kg.
Retaining its 250W Mahle EBM X35 rear hub motor, the Endurance SL e Hero has a neatly integrated batty pack and very little mass to roll around, thanks to the combination of Toray T1000 and T800 fibres in its construction.
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For Ribble to achieve the 10.5kg target weight for its Endurance SL e Hero, a great deal of carbon fibre was used to upgrade this e-bike component specification.
The LEVEL 5 integrated cockpit is not only aero but also preciously light, whilst LEVEL DB35 Superlight EBM composite wheels reduce rotating mass.
The Endurance SL e Hero build features a Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 9150 drivetrain, and LEVEL DB35 Superlight EBM carbon wheels, rolling Schwalbe PRO ONE TT tyres. It prices at £6.999.00.
Lance Branquinho is a Namibian born media professional, with 15-years of experience in technology and engineering journalism covering anything with wheels. Being from Namibia, he knows a good gravel road when he sees one, and he has raced some of Africa’s best-known mountain bike stage races, such as Wines2Wales and Berg&Bush.
