we’ll heres my old Rocklobster frame, whipped all the paint of to reveal the light Easton frame.

built for racing and local xc riding.

full carbon fork £110 reduced from £300
Deore brakes
0X grip shift
SLK Crank
X7 & X9 mechs
MT65 wheels & tubeless nobbies (borrowed from FS bike)
KCNC bars, stem & post
pg900 cassette
160 hope rotors
crank bros low stack headset
time atac pedals
pc911 chain

around 20lb, all parts bought in the sales so not too much spent.

Although there’s a fair amount of standing in xc racing, I’d still recommend you stretch the budget to a seatpost and saddle 🙂

nice bike though, you really don’t need to spend loads to get a light xc race bike. If you can self build wheels, for 150ish you can get 1500g easily which would save a good chunk of weight!

Where did you get the fork for that price?

tweaks, it was reduced to £210 as the steerer was already cut. it was on there site for a few months. I e-mailed a cheeky bid and they said yes (happy days)!

deore brakes are good enough (plus very cheap)

x7 rear mech (cheap to replace & hardly any difference in weight & function)

0x grip shift are very light and very reliable plus only £50

looks great , the forks are smart!

+1 for the x0 shifters, i run them on my race bike!!!

around 20lb,

Yeah. Right. 😉
That’s not been anywhere NEAR a set of scales. I’ll bet it’s 24-ish. I stuck a mates carbon Whippet on my scales. He thought it was 22lb.
Not even close! It was 25ish if I recall correctly 🙂

+1 on pp but I was being too kind to say 😉

i’m 11 stone and was 12 7 stone with the bike.

now add a kcnc post = 140g & a sella itallia fibra saddle 135lb

So you weighed it on bathroom scales? 🙄

🙂

yep all I got. your right prob around 24lb. anyway doesn’t matter, its a light cheap bike for me to do some xc events on this year. first of which will be HTN

I’m with PP on this… Deore brakes, SLX cranks & those wheels = no way it’s 20lb, sorry!

alright, alright jesus 24lbish ! lets move on 😆

Sorry 🙂

I love it how ‘cobbled together’ means more ‘mismatching’ than cheap necessarily. I’ll agree its cheap in the grand scheme of things, but my current parts bin is a factory old stock steel Saracen (1990’s) frame which I had to source my own Saracen decals for, some Acera combined brake/gear shifters, no name V-brakes, an old Isis crankset with worn rings….

Looks ace. But run as 1×9 to save more weight. Got plans to race something on it?

Well I still like it.
24lbs still sounds good.

My old Trek SLR frame,
Old square internal type deore chainset,
Exotic alu rigid fork,
LX shifters & mechs,
Thomson post,
Raceface Evolve bar & stem,
Cheap DT-Swiss hubs on 317rims

prob just under 27lb …. Still peddles as if its much lighter.
i will be doing Wentwood enduro on it again this year.
Fully-rigid does it for me.