Ridgeback Supernova EQ 2022 Bike

Offering a comfortable and refined ride the Supernova is a city bike with a difference, with its 6061 aluminium frame and carbon fibre fork keeping the weight down the Supernova performs and feels like a flat bar road bike with the comfort of your classic hybrid city bike. The Schwalbe 700 x 35c tyres big enough to smooth out the road but narrow enough to keep the rolling resistance down and allow you to keep the speed up. With a 50/34 chain set upfront and a 10 speed cassette at the rear the gearing is perfectly set up to allow you to speed through the city on the weekdays and join in the local sunday road miles on the weekend without being left behind or out performed.

Our range-topping utility bike is the ultimate British year-round high-speed commuting machine, featuring hub gears, disc brakes and integrated lights. The Supernova EQ is built with speed and practicality in mind, with no compromises across the plentiful specification. The aluminium frame is complemented by a lightweight carbon fork for superior ride quality and a significant weight saving, when compared to its steel counterpart. Shimano's Nexus internal hub gear provides the ultimate in worry-free, low maintenance shifting. With the gears concealed within the hub and the chain only rotating (rather than shifting across a cassette in a derailleur-based setup), component parts have an incredibly long shelf-life. As the gears themselves are internal, a dirty and contaminated cassette and derailleur is a thing of the past, with chains lasting up to ten times longer. Disc brakes continue the theme of low maintenance, high performance cycling on the Supernova EQ. They provide superior all-weather stopping power and by not using the rim surface, prevent premature wheel wear. Wet or dry, day or night, the Supernova EQ has you covered. Robust, full length aluminium mudguards come as standard and the Shimano dynamo front hub powers the integrated front and rear lights. Finishing touches include a rear pannier rack, kickstand and tyres with reflective sidewalls, rounding out what we believe to be the ultimate machine for utility cycling.

Specifications

Frame and Forks

• Frame Shape: Crossbar
• Frame Material: Alloy
• Forks: Aluminium Disc / Mudguard Eyelets

Drivetrain

• Chain: KMC S1
• Chain Set: Samox AF19 / 44 Tooth / 15 Inch 165mm / 17-19 Inch 170mm / 21-23 Inch 172.5mm
• Cassette: Shimano SM-GEAR 20 Tooth
• Bottom Bracket: Shimano BB-UN26 68/118mm

Braking/Shifting

• Shifters: Shimano Alfine SL-S503 Rapidfire Plus 8 Speed
• Brakes: Shimano BR-MT200 Hydraulic Disc Brake
• Brake Levers: Shimano BL-MT200 Hydraulic Brakes

Wheels

• Rims: Shining DB-31
• Hubs: Shimano DH-3D37 / Nexus SG-C6001 8 Speed / Front / Rear
• Spokes: Steel 14G
• Tyres: Schwalbe Little Big Ben Relfex 700 x 40c

Finishing Kit

• Handlebars: Ridgeback Alloy / 20mm Rise x 6 deg Backsweep / 31.8 Nm Barbore / 15/19 Inch = 640mm 21/25 Inch = 660mm
• Headset: Neco H-148-MP 1-1/8 Inch
• Stem: Ridgeback 70mm +7 Deg
• Seatpost: Alloy 27.2 x 350mm
• Saddle: Ridgeback Custom
• Pedals: Resin Metro

Extras

• Mudguard: Fitted