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njee – I remember when you built that up, it prompted me to build one for a mate. Nice frames those!
Yeah, obviously I’m always looking at ‘what next’ but it’s not killed me to death, it rides really nicely and I like the look of it, so struggling to be inspired! If the Chinese up their game with some lighter disc frames then I could be tempted!
/i have a cheap no name alloy frame of ebay (an old one nicely weld too) anodised in purple with matching anodised brakes, Q/R and other bits (I sent them off all at the same time) that weighs 6kg
C’mon then - what’s the spec? must be some lovely light bits on there!
The Trek ALR has the same lightweight focus as the carbon one, frame around 1200g which is comparable to Kinesis Aithein, CAAD, Giant TCR SLR etc etc.
My Trek Emonda is 17lb with 105, and Kysrium wheels. I had an Aithein with Miicroshift Arsis which was just under 16lb.
my stock rose with force and (relatively) heavy cosmic carbones is around 7.5kg with caged and pedals (on my park scales). For just over £2k. Would drop under the 7 mark with a light set of wheels like r sys. No silly light or expensive components.
I think the CAAD12 frameset is coming in around 1.1 or 1.2kg in the current rim-brake version.
Who has the time to run through this thread and set out some award ceremony?
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C’mon then – what’s the spec? must be some lovely light bits on there
I too am intrigued by how a cheap alu frame can be built up to sub 6kg, when the likes of spesh struggle to get near that for 10k
17.38lbs (7.88kg) only difference from pic is Quarq now instead of vectors
edit - oh ive not got the eTap front mech on at the moment, so plus a 162g
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The x1 version of the sprint is the only Specialized bike I’ve properly fancied buying.
still searching for one of the polished alu versions.
It isn't, it's heavy
@tpbiker..... Mainstream manufacturers generally build bikes that will take say a 95kg mamil sat on them every weekend. Some stuff will be overbuilt or they won't take a chance on lightweight stuff because it might fail prematurely and would be bad for reputation regardless of the fact the user probably didn't account for it being a lightweight component. Or they have to use in-house components.
Careful specification of items and attention to detail will get you a lighter bike. Things like basic Time Xpresso pedals are cheap but weigh little. I found the bearings didn't last though. My Microshift Arsis groupset weighed less than Dura Ace but cost less than Ultegra. Some cheap saddles are only 200g. So sling all those carefully chosen components on an aluminium frame and it will make more difference than the frame itself. Sub 900g carbon frames aren't that common even further up the price ranges, so you're only losing ~300g by choosing a light alu frame.
I was about to say the Spesh Smart Weld Allezs are pretty light, there's some really nice builds on WW
Don't have a racer but the bike i ride on the road is north of 30lbs.
More importantly...how much do your scales weigh? Mine weigh 0lbs which will make me the winner (what's the prize again?)
You win the 'misplaced smugness on the internet' prize, well done!
505g for my scales, i run the batteries with around 20% charge, lighter innit
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505g for my scales, i run the batteries with around 20% charge, lighter innit
As stupid as it sounds, I always think my ebike handles a bit better when it has low battery 😳 (I know it doesn’t really, honest)
Don’t have a racer but the bike i ride on the road is north of 30lbs.
Compared to my tandem, that is a lightweight. And I have not included the 25-30 kilos of "luggage", AKA the stoker. Then when you add the tagalong...
Anything sub eight kilos is light enough. Sub seven is "ooh that's light" light.
There's not a lot of weight to be saved once you've gone decent carbon. My Defy frame and forks (ad seatpost) is 800-odd g in medium and was the lightest frame they ever made.
Lolling at dirtyrider. Eye rolling at njee2000. While your having a look for my prize, keep an eye out for your sense of humour.
Canyon Grail CF7 Small
Full Carbon, hydro 105, 40mm Schwable G-Ones now tubeless
Quoted weight for the Medium was 8.6kg (18.96lb)
On the scales no pedals with 2 bottle cages and a garmin mount 😉 8.86kg (19.53lb)
I'm happy enough to thunder through some rough stuff on it too.
Giant TCR Alliance from about 2011, 8.7kg, with pedals, but without saddle bag.
The saddle is a charge spoon instead of the original Giant saddle (which broke) and the wheels are ultegra tubeless.
There's also an extra piece of duct tape on the inside of the rear tyre - without that it would be well under 8kg....
Eye rolling at njee2000. While your having a look for my prize, keep an eye out for your sense of humour.
There are several possibilities here...
1) I did find your witty comment hilarious, but was unable to convey this through text
2) I do, indeed have no sense of humour
3) what you said wasn’t actually funny
Now, I know you think it’s 2. I can actually imagine the look on your face when you thought of it and your fingers stabbed away at the keys gleefully.
it could, of course be the case, and I’ll be honest, now you’ve followed it up by adding some extra 0s to the end of my user name I’m reconsidering, I mean that is absolutely hilarious. Real top draw stuff. Bet you’re a hit at parties.
But no, I’ll stick with 3.
By the way it’s ”you’re”; illiterate and unfunny is a poor combo. Have a nice day. Let’s keep talking about bikes eh?
Oh dear...
I just picked up a bottom of the range specialized allez, which with pedals out the box weighed. 9.8 kgs.
Anyhow, I changed the wheels and tyres to a set of lighter ones I had kicking around, swapped the drive train and shifters to 105, and put on a ti saddle. Swapping the wheels and tyres alone saved 900gms!
Its now 8.3kgs with bottle cage, garmin mount and pedals. Does make me wonder why I spend easily 3 times as much on my 'nice' roadie.
<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">Only issue is that it was bought as a winter bike but it now looks way tio nice to chuck mud guard and lights on it... </span>
Spesh Roubaix, quite an old model, it's from 2010. With pedals, bottle cages, Garmin mount, small saddle bag with spare inner and multi-tool it's 8.8kg
CAAD12 (alu), SRAM Red (mechanical) and Reynolds Assault (when racing) = 7.3kg. Gets me up Pitch hill 20th out of 20,000+ attempts. Crushing super light carbon bikes on an aluminium is hilarious!
Crushing super light carbon bikes on an aluminium is hilarious!
Its not exactly like you are riding a Tank yourself is it! My lightweight crarbon framed, carbon wheeled bike weighs about 100g less than that.
Crushing super light carbon bikes on an aluminium is hilarious!
Not really. You need to do it on a fat bike, or a full suspension mountain bike or something like that.
I 'crush' all sorts of bike uphill on my cheap aluminium fixed gear bike but don't find it particularly hilarious.
Mates just got his hi-mod to 4.9kgs (10.8lbs)
My S-Works Venge 54cm in the bike shop, supposedly 7.1kg 15.63lbs. Not bad for an aero bike with 64mm rims
https://imgur.com/gallery/GDQeznS
Mine weighs (bathroom scales, not calibrated 😉 ) a shade under 13kg, ready to go
Carbon frame ("de Chine"), 55mm wheels (de Chine aussi) & 32mm tyres, di2, 2 spare tubes, CO2x2 and pump (and hand pump just in case), lots of tools in a false bottle and a full water bottle, computer, F&R lights and POW-meter pedals all fitted
Riding a great Parlee Altum Disc. Ultegra Di2, Zipp 202's and Garmin Vector pedals. Currently weights in at 7.3kg or 16.1lb - not too bad for disc brakes.
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7.6 for caad10. it's a weird mix of weenieism and cheap stuff (unfinished build really).
Best bike is a Bianchi Specialissima, 6.4 kgs. It climbs and descends rather well.
I weighed the Ribble. Headset but no fork, no B.B...1.42kg.
😏 I assume you don’t have a 500g headset?
It’s one of those Hope lead edition ones...
Pretty heavy by modern standards but not ridiculously so.
Reynolds 853, traditional wheels with Royce hubs, brooks B17 etc. But it just rides so nicely and taking into account the 16st blob trying to push it along the weight of the bike is a mere fraction.
I’ll get round to weighing it some time.
I weighed the Ribble. Headset but no fork, no B.B…1.42kg
Under 7kg looking very unlikely now I'd say.
In other news I went out on the single speed this afternoon - all 12kg of it! On-One Pompetamine frame and Gipiemme wheelset ain't light.