The Noah Fast Disc Ultegra Complete Road Bike from Ridley is a great way to get its range-topping frameset as a complete build. Always a perennial favorite amongst the sprinters on Ridley sponsored teams, the new Noah adds more speed everywhere. A staple in the pro peloton over the past dozen years, Ridley has carefully evolved this aero frameset making it an excellent bike for everyday training rides and of course, racing. This Noah Fast benefits from improvement to the design and its the fastest Noah to date thanks to new aerodynamic structures learned from in-house computer aided design, finite element analysis, and wind tunnel testing, along with real-world feedback from its sponsored pros on Team Lotto Soudal. Add the confidence of powerful disc braking in any weather conditions along with a boost of stiffness and increased comfort while dropping some grams, and you have a very potent speedster. The new Noah Fast is a stunning machine indeed. Every line, shape, curve, and detail is designed with aerodynamics in mind. While we're used to seeing Ridley's dedication to aero details in the past stem from integrated seat masts, cutouts at the fork blades and seatstays to reduce turbulence, and hidden, integrated brakes, this new design eschews such features as the engineers have learned how to build a faster Noah thanks to the firm investing in a state of the art wind tunnel (along with a couple of other Belgian brands in a collaborative effort dubbed "Flanders Bike Valley") and the time spent there. What we do notice immediately with this updated version is an ultra-slick seat post clamp, and an all-new fork, designed to work with the intergraded handlebar and stem combo to hide the cables. The key piece to this new fork design is Ridley's new F-Steerer. Instead of a traditional round steerer tube, the profile on the Noah's steerer resembles that of a half-moon curvature, allowing Ridley to route the housing, sans the front brake housing on this model, fully i...