Why do you think a dropper’s essential for the alps? I found mine pointless with the extended descents, barely used it. And then I broke it in a crash! Wouldn’t be without it here but I’ll probably not bother with it next time.

Coil shock, meh. I had a coil for this bike, but it didn’t add much, and had some disadvantages. Hardly an essential with modern air shocks.

And duaplies… well, I swapped to the SX carcasses for the endurance dh at fort william this year, they were spot on. So had no worries about taking them to the alps either. Could have wished for a slightly stickier front, mind, but they’re tough as old boots.

My do-everything bike is pretty heavy so I have decided to put it on a diet, no idea on current weight.

From:
CCDB steel coil
Saint 2×9 +bash
Mavic 721 on evo2s
2.2 RQs with DH tubes

To:
CCBD Ti coil
Saint 1×9 +chain device
Easton havoc UST
Hans dampf tubeless

Back of a fag packet calculations come in at ~3.7lbs saving, mostly from the wheels. Should make it a bit easier uphill at least! Although I’ll probably stick the 721s back on when Alpsing.

2006 Enduro, Marz 66 forks, XT kit, Saint cranks, Thomson. 35lbs with heavy wheels and tyres, 33 lbs with mid-weight.
Not good for all day rides but did PPdS on it in mid-weight guise and it was perfect. Amazing the difference on character wheels and tyres makes.

30lbs
Carbon Nomad
Float RLC’s
2×10 XTR group
Crossmax SX wheels
Reverb
Carbon Haven bars
Straitline Amp pedals

Intense Slopestyle Mk1
Marzocchi 66s
1×9
Reverb
Big tyres and DH tubes

38lbs. That means I win right?

Spesh Pitch
Lyrics
Hope/EN521 wheels
reverb
1×10 + silentguide

About 32lb with pedals on average, under 30lb with SPD’s and a normal post, could probbaly be under 29 comfortably with the OEM wheels and light tyres. Holiday mode depends on the holiday, I think the record is about 38lb with DH bits and the reverb, lightest was the 29lb with SPD’s and conti superonics for a trail center.

Medium Pitch but still air front and rear, dropper post, hope 2 / flows / FR4’s, stubby stem, steel chainrings (2) / heavy cassette, mud / gaffer tape / million zip ties / far too much grease etc = 35.1 lbs.

It gets a bit heavy when it needs lifting over fences / gates etc at the end of a ride, but I’ve deliberately gone for a (cheap-ish) burly build.

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I’ve no idea (nor care) how much weight its added but I’ve replaced pretty much all bolts / fixings with chunky stainless steel parts, except the m14 axles

Spicy 516
Full xt 2 x 9
u-turn lyriks
dhx5 coil with Ti
syncross dp 25,s on pro2,s
Haven bars and stem
hayes stroker trail
ks remote dropper
2.4 NN evo,s
34.5 lbs on the bathroom scales so i don,t know what it weighs. 😉

27.5lbs.

31 lb for my heckler bathroom scales
Xfusion vengeance forks
Rp23
single ply tyres
2x9xt
Superstar &flow wheels
Reverb post
Xt &hope components

38.2lbs…!

mondraker prayer (coil shock)
domain forks
bunch of other sturdy things

it’s ace! 🙂

Remedy 9 09

31.2lbs

ccdb with ti spring
stealth reverb
1×10 xtr
xtr trail brakes
36 talas rlc
rhythm pro carbon bars
dt ex1750 wheels
2.4 rubber queens
superstar ultra mag pedals

27lbs near enough on the nose. Nomad carbon with Lyrik solo air & vivid air. All light but strong kit

My Mrs has a Meta SX which came out at 29.9.

Light but strong?
Seriously doubt you can build any 160mm bike under 29lb and keep it strong/stiff.
Which begs the question, why would you want a weak build on a long travel bike?

Which begs the question, why would you want a weak build on a long travel bike?

Makes it easier to pedal round Llandegla.

Sad but probably all too true

Full component spec of some of these bikes would be “interesting”

No idea. Lighter than my old DH bike, heavier than my hardtail.

Which begs the question, why would you want a weak build on a long travel bike?

For straightlining down steps?
Anyway – not everybody is the same weight. I know that at 60kg, I’d want to keep a 160mm bike at around 30lb, with only tyre changes dipping it under or over.

Hey Ewan…swapped the cruz for a mega?

My mega with…

Float 36 kashima front and rear
mavic sx with 2.35 maxxis single ply
1 x 10
no dropperpost
XTR brakes
nukeproof finishing kit is about 30.5 – 31 pounds (me and bike on bathroom scales) so some margin of error there..

The new 2013 mega is about a pound lighter so that will be interesting to see.

Light but strong?

Seriously doubt you can build any 160mm bike under 29lb and keep it strong/stiff. Which begs the question, why would you want a weak build on a long travel bike?

Quite easily actually.

GW – Member

Sad but probably all too true

Hob Nob’s biek seemed to cope OK with the Mega….

That’s your benchmark?

GW – Member
That’s your benchmark?

Not necessarily, but it does counter your suggestion that the bike is only used for trail centres. Obviously it would have to be built a lot more solidly to survive the rigours of the constant trolling on here.

Amazed people have Saint Cranks on trail bikes 🙂

Someone asked about full Specs so here goes

SC Heckler Mk6.1
Fox RP23 From Orange Alpine (Slightly different e2e I think)
Marz 55 09/11 Hybrids Coil
Hope BB & Headset
Easton Vice 50mm Stem
Nukeproof Warhead Bars
Hope Tech M4’s on 200mm Floating (Black)
XT Mechs and shifters – cables no idea
SLX Cranks
Middleburn Rings 22-36
FSA Bash
Blackspire Stinger
SRAM PC991 Chain & Cassette (9 Speed)
Hope Pro II on EX721 (Hoops)
KS900 Post lever not remote
Charge Spoon Ti
CB Mallet 2’s (Soon to be the new 3’s)
Minion DHF 2.35 Single Ply or HRII 2.4 Single Ply
Maxxis lightweight tubes
PRO Endless Grips

missed anything

hits around 34-35lb pedals well rides fun.

Throw some 2.5 Minion DP for alps or down only riding.

Its 200mm but it only weighs 28lb13oz

‘d love a shot on that, but hate to own it. ^^

George – I didn’t actually make such a suggestion.

Screaming “troll” the second someone questions/challenges you is pathetic. And a big part of what’s wrong with this place.

I’ll thing you’ll GW is a big part of what’s wrong with this place 😉

You’ll “thing” me?

That’s the strangest dig anyone’s ever had at me on here

put it away lads

Only if you buy me dinner first.

No, you merely said it was “probably all to true”.

And I’d say that a bunch of people automatically jumping to negative conclusions about someone based on a scrap of information about a bike is a somewhat larger part of what’s wrong with this place. “His bike is a bit lighter than mine – he mus be a mincer/doesn’t know how to ride it/etc, etc.” is either jealousy or trolling. Grren face, either way.

I’d like to thank GW, after two of his posts in any thread I now stop reading as they seem to go off topic and verge on bickering.

I now have much more free time instead of being on here all the time.

Hey Ewan…swapped the cruz for a mega?

Your bikes inspired my Ady! For the time being at least – picked the frame up for just under 600, a change is always good. Inital impressions seems to be that the shock is indeed quite a hard tune, but climbs well and jumps better. Quite like it and was fine in nagery singletrack, tho not quite as good as my nickel (that is 3 inches shorter tho!).

Why do you think a dropper’s essential for the alps? I found mine pointless with the extended descents, barely used it. And then I broke it in a crash! Wouldn’t be without it here but I’ll probably not bother with it next time.

Guess like anything it depends on what you ride when you’re there. Totally agree it’s pointless on the Pleny etc, but on some of the slightly undulating singletrack that’s less well known it’s quite handy. Even when I was in Whistler it was useful ocassionally (riding rom the bottom lift to the bottom of the top lift! Certainly when we rode with Riveriabike they came into their own, that’s more the martime alps than the alps proper.

Jealous? 😆 of what?

havimg a lighter bike takes nothing more than spending cash on lighter parts. Did plenty of that in the 90s thanks.

my covert is 31lbs with

medium covert
bos deville
american classic wheels+tubless
fox rp23
1 x 10+e13 srs
hope tech m4
reverb+belair t1 saddle
high rollers 2.35
xt gears

have a ccdb for rougher stuff dh

Rorsch – KFC do?

GW – Member
Jealous? of what?

havimg a lighter bike takes nothing more than spending cash on lighter parts. Did plenty of that in the 90s thanks.

Ok, so we can rule out jealousy in your case, then.

Makes me guff….but if you don’t mind the smell it’ll do.