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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.
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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 [b]24lbish[/b] ! 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 1x9 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.