Which doesn’t seem vastly optimistic, those were light frames, but Hope/Mavic wheels weren’t light, as that would’ve been XC hubs back then
That was genuine weight, no optimism involved, actually surprised at the time how light it turned out, RC 36s were ~1500g so comparable to a modern Reba, Turbine cranks were pretty light at the time, with Ti BB was less than the XTR 950 that I had before them anyway, Wheels were XC’s with the Ti freehub, heavy by modern standards but with 717s and CX rays and alu nipples still made a reasonable weight wheelset, silly thin conti tyres were a bad choice but were pretty light, XO rear mech (proshift front mech, remember them?!) with XO gripshift was waaay lighter than the XTR option, although XTR cassette was still on there, USE seatpost, stem and bars, SLR saddle, all off the shelf stuff, no properly exotic bits or anythign built by crazy Germans!
If we’re really doing no carbon you need to change the rear mech and shifters too
ah yes, bum, the rear mech hadn’t registerd in my head as having carbon bits but they did, I suppose the SLR counts as carbon as well underneath or was it just some clever plastic?
If it was that easy 10 years ago and pre-tubeless then should be easy to go a lot lower now if you tried, not that I’ve had any full suss bike lighter since then (other than a Mk1 Cannondale Scalpel but that’s more soft-tail than full sus), they’ve all been heavier but more capable.