The 2025 race season is about to kick off, and Cyclingnews is on the bottom on the Tour Down Under. The race offers an awesome probability to scope out the entire new professional race bikes in a single place and see how every part seems to be up shut for the primary time.
Ridley launched its model new aero race bike as we speak, the Noah Fast 3.0, and you’ll learn all in regards to the new bike in our Ridley Noah 2025 launch story. The TL:DR although is that the model claims it is the quickest bike it has ever produced. As anticipated, each Uno-X Mobility males’s and girls’s groups will race on it this yr, with the ladies starting their marketing campaign right here in Australia.
The group bikes are fitted with a barely blended drivetrain setup, Shimano Dura-Ace is specced however is damaged up with an aftermarket CeramicSpeed OSPW on the rear and an FSA energy meter as a substitute of a Dura-Ace chainset, which suggests the group most likely purchases its groupsets quite than getting them equipped at no cost by the Japanese model.
Wheels are DT Swiss ARC 1100 fashions fitted with Vittoria Corsa Pro tyres. This specific bike belongs to Anouska Koster and he or she is at the moment working a Deda commonplace stem and Zero 100 handlebar, which appears significantly at odds with the bike’s hyper-aero credentials. We aren’t positive whether or not this merely offers a greater match for her, or whether or not she continues to be attending to grips with the brand new bike earlier than she suits the absolutely built-in Ridley Nimbus aero bar that comes inventory with the bike.
The Ridley Noah Fast 3.0 could be run with the bike’s customized Nimbus built-in handlebar or a extra conventional stem / bar setup, maybe this rider continues to be discovering the proper setup or cannot discover the proper one with the Nimbus aero bar (Image credit score: Chris Auld)This look is barely at odds with the tremendous aero entrance finish of the Noah body, word the flared transition from fork into the decrease head tube (Image credit score: Chris Auld)In 2025, this setup is outdated, however consolation and match are essential (Image credit score: Chris Auld)The Noah Fast stem sits under the highest of the bike’s high tube (Image credit score: Chris Auld)With the usual, spherical bottles proven right here, you actually get a way of how giant the bike’s backside bracket is (Image credit score: Chris Auld)It’s a Shimano Dura-Ace spec however with an FSA Powerbox Ok- Force chainset, which utilises a Power2Max energy meter spider (Image credit score: Chris Auld)The Noah Fast 3.0 has a detachable entrance derailleur mount to facilitate a clear 1x chainset association. Spot the white chain wax between the hyperlinks right here too. (Image credit score: Chris Auld)The group are utilizing the CeramicSpeed derailleur pulley with filled-in ‘Alpha Disc’ jockey wheels (Image credit score: Chris Auld)DT Swiss hubs ought to take care of all types of abuse, word the fork through axle drive-side drilling is not blind (crammed in) like some new bikes (the Canyon Aeroad CFR or Pinarello Dogma F for instance.) (Image credit score: Chris Auld)
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