"It was true cyclocross. After two laps my bicycle weighed 10 kilos more because of the mud." This off-the-cuff comment by Cyclocross World Champion Sven Nys after a World Cup race in Wetzikon, Switzerland might rank as the perfect summary of just how savage 'cross racing can be. Nothing you can do on a bike quite equals the sustained violence you get in 'cross, and no other discipline makes the same paradoxical demands on your bike: On the one hand, you need a bike that can withstand rocky, rutted courses better suited for a brutish 4" travel full-suspension mountain bike. On the other hand, since you have to dismount and essentially clean-and-jerk your bike over your shoulder 20 or 30 times per race, weight matters because you feel every last gram of it (whether it's bike weight or mud weight) as the race wears on. With the X-Night, Ridley offers a cost-be-damned solution for the 'cross paradox. Its full carbon fiber construction is built in a monocoque design in order to maximize its strength, its impact resistance (in case you miss when you try to bunny hop a barrier!), and its resistance to torsional flex. Ridley employs the same "Sharp Edge Design" tubing configurations they perfected with the Damocles and Noah road bikes -- the day-in, day-out race bike for Team Silence-Lotto and Team Katusha. In comparison to traditional round tubes, Ridley's unique tubesets give their carbon bikes unmatched strength-to-weight in the cyclocross marketplace. They can shave every unnecessary gram from the frame, resulting in an overall weight of 1.32kg. That's just an ounce or so more than some of the best loved road bikes in the marketplace, such as the Colnago C50, the Cervelo Soloist Carbon, and the Ridley Damocles. It's the stiffest, strongest, carbon 'cross bike in the world, and it'll give you the same advantage it gives Team Fidea pros Bart Wellens and Erwin Vervecken. The X-Night utilizes an integrated seat tube/seatpost. We will literally cut down the carbon fiber seat tube of the frame based on your saddle-to-BB measurement. You'll use a custom Ridley seatpost cap that seamlessly mates to the seat tube. You get ~4cm of seatpost height adjustment once we make the cut. The use of this integrated seat tube/ seatpost maximizes the aerodynamics of the X-Night frame, minimizes the weight and it offers added frameset stiffness when you're putting the bike under serious in-the-saddle pressure, and of course it looks like a million bucks. While a handful of aero-minded TT bikes utilize this design, the X-Night is the only 'cross frame in the market that goes to this extent to optimize its design. The X-Night is available in even sizes from 50cm-58cm. One superb detail of the X-Night is its Ridley Python carbon fiber 'cross fork -- the most respected fork in the 'cross marketplace, and one you'll see on countless brands of pro bikes. It has a stiffness and lightness that mirrors the qualities you get from the X-Night itself, and it allows the X-Night to track through technical courses (at both low and high speeds) with unmatched precision. It also comes with an FSA integrated 1-1/8" headset. It requires a 34.9mm front derailleur. It has a 5-year warranty from manufacturing defect. Please provide us with your BB-Saddle Rail height in the "Comments" section of our order form so we can properly cut down the seat tube for delivery. One final note on sizing: On all sizes the top of the seat tube is 235mm above the center of the top tube, not including seat mounting hardware.
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