Ridley Produces Its First Electric Road / Gravel Bike The E-Grifn

Ridley produces the E-Grifn in seven different configurations. It starts around $5500 and goes up from there, depending on the components the buyer chooses. The E-Grifn is built with Ridley’s Elite-series carbon fiber.

The Mahle X20 is billed as the lightest e-bike drive system in the world, at 3.025 lbs. (1.375kg). In saving significant weight, it has to give up some power, though. It produces 250W nominally and 23Nm of torque; marketing materials often report 55Nm, then include in parentheses, “compared to mid-drive.” Ridley chose Mahle’s internal, 350Wh battery to power the X20 motor.

The Ridley E-Grifn is produced in five sizes, meant to fit riders with inseams from 27.5 in. up to 36 in.

Set up for gravel riding, the Ridley E-Grifn can accept tires as wide as 42mm. The geometry of the e-bike does sit somewhere between a traditional road bike and a gravel bike; the reach tends to be long and the bottom bracket drop is a little shallower than we would expect to see on a gravel bike.