Ribble (UK) – Advanced and super lightweight for optimum riding performance.

The new Ultimate SL takes pride of place at the very top of Ribble's lightweight, carbon road bike range. It’s the lightest frame that Ribble designed and built to date and it comes in at only 840g on the weighing scale (medium frame). This bike is for riders looking for every advantage on their lightest machine for road and circuit racing or epic challenge rides in the hills and big mountains. Wherever you want to ride fast the Ultimate SL is designed to give you the edge and keep you right at the sharp end of your race.

With the new Ultimate SL Ribble developed and produced a cutting-edge, highly advanced frameset that is incredibly light with new, carbon tube profiles designed to cut through the air. The high-end carbon frameset is very responsive to your accelerations, very little power transfer is lost and the overall ride feel is firm without being harsh.

Designed with racing geometry and a short wheelbase, the Ultimate SL puts you in a low, efficient and aggressive racing position. The overall design is aimed at saving you watts and following the Ribble pedigree of being the fastest bike out there.

The Ultimate SL’s distinctively thin seat stays help build in some comfort into the rear triangle of the bike and a 27.2mm seat post also assists in taking some sting out of any rough road surfaces.

An oversized bottom bracket shell and tapered head tube boost the bike’s stiffness and efficiency making it stiff enough to sprint for victory as well as light enough to climb into the clouds.

Over its matt carbon finish the Ultimate SL boasts only subtle and understated graphics for a simple reason – paint adds weight to a frame so Ribble's designers have gone minimalist with the colour scheme.

Head of Ribble bike design James Dove says, “I’m really excited about this new and highly competitive Ribble bike. Not only is the Ultimate super light, we have designed it for optimum performance and this is a bike that will see Ribble at the front of races again. It’s a bike I’m extremely proud of.”