Our challenge was to improve our best selling carbon road bike how do you actually improve an already perfectly balanced bike the r872 has been so popular with road racers and triathletes alike that we listened to their needs for an even stiffer and even faster ride at the heart of the r872 is a thoroughly modern cutting edge full carbon frameset featuring internal cable routing a tapered head tube a stiffened up bottom bracket area and deep chain stays for improved power transfer its al