RIDLEY COMPACT

The Ridley Compact is an ideal frameset if you aren't keen on diving headfirst into the carbon craze, but you're tantalized by the skillful construction, Belgian race heritage, and unique geometry of Ridley. Keep in mind that over the last decade a good number of Ridley's sponsored pros (be it on Unibet, Davitamon-Lotto or Katusha) chose Ridley's aluminum frames over carbon options in the belief that aluminum offered unmatched stability and handling at speed on the nasty pavé of northern Europe.

Thanks to the fact that the Compact is built with tapered, triple-butted 7005 aluminum tubes, it weighs in at a 1.4kg -- a smidge above 3lbs, not too far from the weight of Ridley's most widely used carbon frame, the Damocles. And it's appropriate to mention the Damocles since it's easy to think of the Compact as an aluminum version of the Damocles: They both use Ridley's "Sharp Edged Design", where the top tube has a triangular cross section where it mates to the headtube, and where the downtube is hexagonal where it feeds into the BB shell. The net effect is giving you maximum stiffness and power transfer when you're pouring serious power into the pedals. The girth of the stays suggests the same -- they beg you to hop on the bike and stomp out a 1 minute interval. Not unlike the rest of tubes on the frame, you'll do a double take at their stoutness. But then your amazement won't stop for the fact that the frame feels so light when you pick it up.

The Ridley Compact comes standard with a Ridley 4ZA R-Blade carbon fork and an FSA integrated headset. Give the fact it comes with a sloping top tube, we encourage you to focus on the virtual top tube length in order to determine the ideal frame size It has a 5-year warranty from manufacturing defect.

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2010 Ridley Compact Pricing

Frameset

Campagnolo

Shimano

SRAM

 
$499 $799 Super Record 113759 Dura Ace 7970 Di25390 Red2851        
  Record 113357 Dura Ace 79003263 Force2141        
  Chorus 112702 Ultegra 67002240 Rival1856        
  Athena 112290 1052278 Apex1680        

2010 Ridley Compact Geometry

Size

Seat Tube c-c

Seat Tube c-t

Actual Top Tube

Effective Top Tube

Head Tube

Seat Angle

Head Tube Angle
S 46.0 50.0 52.0 53.0 13.3 74.5 72.0
M 46.0 53.0 54.0 55.0 15.5 74.0 73.0
L 51.0 55.0 55.5 57.0 19.0 73.5 73.0
XL 53.0 57.0 57.0 58.5 21.0 73.5 73.0

Ridley Geometry