Ribble Stealth Frame Concerns

CRAIGO5000

Hi all,

Can anyone with a Ribble Stealth or R872 or whatever it's called now please take a look at their seat down-tube and see if they have a huge indentation just before the crank?

I originally had an issue a few days ago where my braze on FD bracket popped a rivet and Ribble told me they would fix it for a price and the fix would involve new rivets and glue. Based off that, I did the job myself as I'm more confident in my own mechanics then that of theirs. (My bike was horrendously built by them when I bought it not going too far off this point).

Here is the frame with dent and my repair to the braze on.





Thanks

zx6man

found this and looks to have one on there from a frame shot.

http://www.ribblecycles.co.uk/assets/images/R872Guide.pdf

arlowood

The dent is supposed to be there. It is there to allow the front mech to travel fully without fouling the seat tube.

Have a look at this Planet X Pro Carbon frameset

http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/FRPXPCRFFDP/planet-x-pro-carbon-road-frameset

You will see a similar "dent" in the seat tube at the same position as the one on your Ribble frameset

CRAIGO5000

Excellent. Thanks.

Hopefully I've now got several thousand miles of trouble free cycling ahead now I've fixed the issues.