More data for you Ridley fans planning your bike building extravaganzas this coming season. Ridley was kind enough to send me some detailed shots of the various products for this coming model year. I focused on the ones related to the disc brake frames to provide some further intel and perhaps give you a leg up when planning for this coming season if Ridley/discs are in your sights.

The X-Fire Disc sporting Shimano

Close up of the rear assembly including IS mount disc tabs and Di2 port

Note the post-mount standard tabs for the front fork.

The boss-less chain stays.

PF30 BB with Di2 battery mount and port for front derailleur.

Note the Ridley X-Ride Disc utilizes the post-mount standard.

A treasure trove of info is streaming in from the Great White North from QBP’s Frost Bike on all the soon-to-be-released Ridley cyclocross products for this coming season. My main man Todd Schmidt of Ridley USA walks us through the 2013 product line in this little ditty.

Also in from Frost Bike are other awesome datapoints for all of you hungry for data on the new disc-brake compatible frames.

2013 Ridley X-Fire Disc-only

Complete Bike MSRP – $3,395 (Ultegra equipped)

Frame Only MSRP – $1,695

Highlights:

-Di2 Compatible-Disc only, 135 spacing

-24-ton high-modulus carbon monocoque frame

-PF30 full carbon bottom bracket shell -Internal cable routing with continuous cable housing

-4ZA Oryx full carbon monocoque fork

-1.5” tapered headtube.

-7sizes from 41-58cm

-Proportionally sized downtube for easy grip

2013 Ridley X-Fire Apex Disc

Complete Bike MSRP – $2,695

The Apex is a price point bike who’s general frame highlights spec is very similar to above. More details coming on the Apex group/brake options. 

2013 Ridley X-Ride Apex Disc

Complete Bike $2,195

Frame Only MSRP – &995 (does come in canti-only frame as well for $895)

Higlights

-Disc brake frame: 135 spacing

-1.5” oversized lower headtube bearing and fork crown

-4ZA Oryx full carbon fork

For those of you hungry to start thinking about your geometry for next season on these steeds above, here are the charts:

And for the pièce de résistance…the 2013 bikes get the custom Belgium Prologo saddle treatment. Bam!

So my spy, otherwise known as Dubba, has been feeding me these incredible pics all morning to share with you from their visit to the Ridely folks in the great white north of Minnesota. More reports soon but have a look at this INCREDIBLE collection of Ridley X-Fire, X-Ride and X-Night all in their new color schemes. We are honored that the new X-Fire Disc will be in Boulder Cycle Sport Colors for 2013!

And please note the Clement Tire spec goodness. Mmmm.

Enjoy...

The 2012 / 2013 X-Fire Disc:

A look at the disc brake boss assembly...

The front fork goodness...

In her glory pose...

The 2012 / 2013 X-Fire with traditional cantilever brakes...

Yes...Electric should you want to be like Sven...

The BEAUTIFUL 2012 / 2013 X-Ride Disc! Incredible price popint race bike with DISCS!

The flagship X-Night, more racy than ever...

So my wife and I are going for it. Three weeks of “za program.” All to try and hit that re-set button our bodies pretty much needed 10 years ago. Three weeks of complete diet change and at its core, flowing back into some discipline.

Our main tool is a juicer, Everything goes in…all the richest superfoods you can conjure up juiced into cocktails that are absolutely delicious. Kale, carrots, almond milk, coconut water, whole apples…the list of foods you can ingest is awesome. The downside is that you have to shelve the good stuff for some time…sugars, coffee, adult beverages, processed anything, wheat. But that’s the discipline I mentioned. I’ve got to get into that mental cadence again and this path thus far has been great to re-fire those neurons.

I’m off the bike mostly these days following the cross season, save for roller sessions and an occasional spin outside. I’m back in love with the running though. It feels super flowy and natural railing the trails around here. I’m trying to get out a few times a week. Some days hard-ish, other days soft-ish. I picked up a pair of syncroFuel Trail’s from Pearl Izumi. I swear to you they’re like the Clement PDX or Dugast Rhino of the running world. BOMBING down snowy descents with nary a forward slip. I’m really impressed as I’d never had trail runners that performed quite like these before.

So go these gray days of winter as I gear down, focus on some new things and clear out the badness in me that’s been building a home in my gullet. Time to wipe it clean.