[Closed] Santa Cruz Hightower Alloy / C/ CC frame weight

Large alloy frame, DT skewer, seatclamp, and shock (I.E. as it comes out the box) I measured at 4.4kg, so pretty porky. However, I built mine up (with XTR, DT wheels, Hope etc) and ended up at pretty much the same weight as an off-the-peg 'C' build for about the same price. Except I have XTR, not NX...

The C and CC frames are signifcantly lighter, based on holding them in store - I dont have figures though and have never seen any.

The long thrad on MTBR is probably your best bet, 141 pages and counting... https://www.mtbr.com/threads/hightower-v2.1107287/

(Remember you cannot buy the C frame only the CC, although theres not much in it between those two variants)

Aye, IIRC there's only about 200g between the C and CC.

Thanks, I had heard there is only 250g ish between the C and the CC.

Really interested to find out Alloy to C

Looking at comparable frames, its around 1 to 1.5kg lighter

So the C would be in the region of 3ish kg?

Looking at comparable frames, its around 1 to 1.5kg lighter

You sure you're not looking at builds and comparing?

No, not looking at builds. Really want to know the frame weight only. Looking at 140-150mm travel frames from other manufacturers there seems to be 1 to 1.2 kg between the alloy and carbon version of the same frame.

using that only, would put the HT C at around 3kg

Poor maths but all I have to go on at the moment!

Their R Aluminium build is quoted at 15.99kg / 35.26lbs, while the R Carbon C build is 15.04kg / 33.15lbs

S Alu is 15.81kg / 34.85lbs, S Carbon c is 14.86kg / 32.75lbs

Assuming the same build ( I think it is) they both add up to the C fame being .95kg lighter than the Alu.

That's about what I get from the MBR link above. Only I had 1130g lighter rather than 950g lighter.

That's cleared up todays dilemma!

Thanks everybody!

Dave