Ridgeback's World range is a group of bikes for people who quite simply want to travel: a modern embodiment of the British tradition of bikes made for the open road. Characterised by traditional non-compact road and touring frames with drop handlebars, this range gives you the confidence to plan to go further afield. Whether you've booked a day long sportive or Audax event, or planning a year-long self-supported epic adventure, there's a bike here for you.
As we have come to expect from Ridgeback, the bikes in the World range have a spec largely Shimano-based, combined with sensible components unencumbered by fad or fashion.
We like the fact that purpose oozes from these bikes. We love that Ridgeback is embracing steel as a frame material for sound technical reasons, rather than spurious ones dictated by fashion-driven bike fetishists.
Ridgeback Panorama
£1199.99
The Ridgeback Panorama is the top bike in the World range and elder sibling to the Voyage. At its heart is a frame made from butted Reynolds 725 tubing, light yet strong enough to pull off fully-laden touring with ease and style, and coupled with a triple butted cromoly fork. This bike is blessed with some high end parts cherry-picked from Shimano XT, Deore and Tiagra. It represents an upgrade of most of the components fitted to the Voyage, and adds a pair of Blackburn low rider front racks to boot!
Like the Voyage, the Panorama has been designed from the gound up for the purpose of carrying large loads efficiently for long distances. The frame and the wheels are designed to cope with all the load permutations associated with 2 large rear panniers with a tent and sleeping bag between, 2 small front panniers, a bar bag and even 3 bottle cages. The Shimano XT, Deore and Tiagra mix delivers as low a gear as you could want, so geography, or topography, should present no barrier to your route choice.
The Panorama delivers low weight frame and forks, 27 speeds with a low bottom gear, Tiagra STI shift levers, light and strong wheels and a front rack. Details of the Panorama spec stand up impressively against the spec from any other mass-produced tourer brand and many bespoke brands: in fact we would go as far as to say that it blows most of them into the weeds! And the British Racing Blue is quite stunning!
You get a lot of bike and a lifetime's fun for £1199.99
Frame type: Classic men's diamond
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