You’d be forgiven for thinking the Ribble Gravel SL looks remarkably similar to the Ribble CGR, the British company’s do-everything ‘cross-gravel-road’ bike. That’s because the frame is essentially the same, other than having sprouted an array of rack mounts on the top tube, the underside of the down tube and the fork legs. That means the bike can do duty as a multi-day tourer as well as a rough-and-tumble off-roader or a comfort oriented road bike, as the frame cherry-picks features from the Endurance SL road bike too.
According to Ribble’s head of product, Jamie Burrow, the Gravel SL is a deliberately versatile bike precisely because the
