ASIN:B008BM7R3M See Ridley Damocles Matte White Black, M Details
Product Description
Some bikes tantalize us with their mystique and heritage, while others turn us on with their raw performance and wealth of results in the professional peloton. The Ridley Damocles is a bike from the latter category. Even though Ridley has only been producing bikes for 17 years, it's been an amazing time -- a brief era capped off by a streak of victories that include the Australian, Dutch, Belgian, and British national road race championships; umpteen wins in field sprints under Robbie McEwen in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia; plus a glorious mountaintop solo victory for American Chris Horner in Switzerland's prestigious Tour of Romandie. Fillipo Pozzato selected the Damocles for his battle with Tom Boonen on the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix. It's thanks to this diversity -- in the rolling courses that define national championship races, in the dead flat sprinters' stages of the Grand Tours, in the dizzying finishes at the ski stations of the Alps, and on the brutal pavAA of Northern France -- that we're convinced of the Damocles' versatility as a race bike. The carbon fiber Damocles is constructed of individual tubes that are joined together into a complete frame. This tube-to-tube method gives Ridley designers the ability to fine tune the layup for each tube considering its role in the frame as a whole, giving it a special blend of durability and lightness. But where the Damocles is unique -- and where it should capture your attention -- is in its ride quality. The true test is to big ring it down a chip-and-seal country road (after all, every bike feels great on smooth pavement). By now we've had countless experiences drilling carbon fiber bikes in the boonies and at times have been annoyed by both the jackhammer effect and the reverberation of road noise throughout the oversize tubes. Take just one test ride on a Damocles though, and you'll come to a glorious conclusion: there's a distinctive forgiveness to its tubes.
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