Ribble R872 £1,199 | 8.64kg (size small)
The Ribble R872 is no stranger to the Cycling Weekly tech team. Its last appearance in the office was in 2018, when a Shimano 105-equipped model (costing £1,199) walked away with a 10/10 score, scooping up an Editor’s Choice award along the way.
The Ribble R872 is designed to tick all the right boxes for customers after their first carbon bike. It’s more relaxed in geometry than the brand’s ‘Endurance’ race models, and favours comfort over out-the-blocks race-ready stiffness.
The current iteration of the Ribble R872 frame and fork uses Toray 700 carbon-fibre. T700 isn’t as high quality as the T800 and T1000 carbon-fibre used on the model we reviewed in 2018, and generally doesn’t result in as stiff a frameset.
That said, the
