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Ridebo Engineering

Custom sports engineering specialising in bicycles and adaptive / prosthetic devices.
  • Mk5 Mountain Tandem AVAILABLE NOW
  • Previous Custom Work
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Ridebo California

Designed and built to celebrate the trails of Northern California

It’s stiff, it’s fast, it has wide bars and loves Demo

  • 27.5” wheels

  • 120mm travel front and rear

  • 6061 T6 construction

  • 142x12 rear end

  • Built with Shimano XTR, Hope, Fox suspension

  • 28.8lbs

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Off-road Tandem Mk5 - 01

Fifth generation full suspension tandem with custom virtual pivot rear suspension. Fully active, independent and refined for great climbing, fast descents and big hits.

Sea Otter Classic and Old Growth Classic winning bike

  • 29er

  • 120mm wheel travel front and rear

  • 7005 mainframe, 6061 rear triangle

  • Custom modified & tuned Maverick DUC-32 fork

  • Twin front disc rotors

  • 1x11 Shimano XTR with Hope hubs and brakes

  • 45 lb

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Off-road Tandem Mk5 - 02

A second take on our fifth generation full suspension tandem with custom virtual pivot rear suspension. Fully active, independent and refined for great climbing, fast descents and big hits.

Built for a local couple to ride on the glorious north California trails

29er

125mm rear wheel travel

7005 mainframe, 6061 rear triangle

Built with all the finest components available

50 lb

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Trials bike

FUN!

Stiff, rigid and aggressive street trials bike. The ultimate smile machine. Because everyone loves skids and wheelies.

  • Unique monocoque construction with CNC machined clamshell nodes

  • Tapered 1.5” headtube

  • Hope trials-specific brakes and hubs.

  • Custom machined bashguard with integrated spider

  • 22lb

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Travel Gravel Tandem w. couplers

Designed to split down for travel, this road / gravel tandem is a bike touring weapon. This bike features custom fully-sealed weld-in-place couplers and is finished with the finest components.

  • 6061 construction

  • SRAM eTap gears with DUB crankset

  • Gates timing belt

  • Custom machined front and rear Quark powermeters

  • Flatmount 203mm front and rear brakes

  • Whiskey fork, White Industries bearings

  • 25lb

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Prosthetic Running Blades

Part of a research project to better understand the action of prosthetic running blades and how they interact with the user from a fundamental dynamics perspective.

This work was undertaken in association with Bournemouth University, Ossur and MSR Dataloggers.

The end result was the development of a wearable system that could record the running action of any specific individual to identify the limitations of the system and improve the prescription process of prosthetic running devices.

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Off-road Tandem Mk4

The fourth iteration of Ridebo off road tandem featuring custom rear suspension linkages and triple externally butted tubing.

  • 29er

  • 6082 construction

  • Finished with carbon tandem cranks, Hope brakes and a Shimano drivetrain

  • Custom tuned Maverick DUC-32 fork

  • Full complement of Spokey Dokeys

  • 35.6lbs

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Xterra Race Machine

Built for elite athlete Pete Hawkins for the 2008 XTerra World Championships in Maui, HI. The frame uses flat plate carbon fibre / aluminium sandwich chainstays to provide vertical rear wheel compliance with high lateral stiffness, and a pultruded integrated seatpost bonded in place.

The bike helped Pete to take the gold medal and become World Champion.

  • 6082-T6 alloy mainframe with pultruded carbon seatpost

  • Carbon / aluminium / carbon sandwich chainstays

  • Roll-wrapped UD carbon seatstays

  • Shimano XTR drivetrain & brakes, Hope hubs

  • Maverick American DUC32 fork

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Citybike Mk2

The second iteration to the ultimate goal of making cycling accessible for everyone.

Designed for extreme low maintenance and ease of use with the aim of removing barriers for those who don't ride bikes. >3000 miles covered to date.

  • 6082-T6 Alloy externally butted w.split RH dropout

  • Internal cable routing and wiring

  • Integrated rear lights

  • Shimano Alfine components w.11speed internal gear hub

  • Shimano Alfine wheelset inc. 3W front dynamo

  • Gates belt drive

  • Brookes leather saddle & grips

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Belt-drive Tourer

For those long cross-country miles in quiet, smooth maintenance-free style. This bike features integrated dynamo-powered front and rear lights, an on-board battery power supply for USB charging and Di2 Alfine internal gears with Gates belt drive for the ultimate in ease-of-use cycling.

  • 6061 construction

  • Clam-shell CNC machined bottom bracket junction

  • Split dropout for belt installation

  • Solid custom made rack compatible with Topeak track system

  • Unique quick release one-time-adjust slotted dropouts for hassle-free rear wheel removal

  • Fox 32 fork and Shimano Alfine components throughout

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