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Show us your super light road bike
Postby pawnii » Mon May 31, 2010 3:16 am
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Postby The Womble » Mon May 31, 2010 6:55 am

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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby toolonglegs » Mon May 31, 2010 7:37 am

Mines not in the "light" realm... 8kgs (with powertap wheel).
But it is a 63cm and will take anything you can throw at it...I could take a kilo off it but then I would break it


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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby sogood » Mon May 31, 2010 8:13 am
The Womble wrote:... 7.8kg hand built so far.
I am not aware of any road bike that's not hand built (apart from portions of the wheel build).


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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby sogood » Mon May 31, 2010 9:58 am

RK wrote:And that is Wikipedia - I can write my own definition.
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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby The Womble » Mon May 31, 2010 10:03 am
Fine Mr La de da Smartypants. Hand assembled over time, minus frame building and fork contruction and milling/machining/ engineering parts of any description and wheel building etc. So as to cut you off at the pass, hand assembled means i used spanners bla bla and refreigned from employing the use of robots or cheap mexican labour
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Postby The Womble » Mon May 31, 2010 10:04 am
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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby sogood » Mon May 31, 2010 10:21 am
The Womble wrote:Crap. Wrong quote!
That says a lot within this context... Poorly assembled by hand.




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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby toolonglegs » Mon May 31, 2010 5:08 pm

Does no one take cycling seriously in Oz!.
My tank is about 8% of my body weight...at 65kgs I would need a 5 kilo bike

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Postby pawnii » Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:07 am

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Postby pawnii » Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:09 am
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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby toolonglegs » Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:13 am

Nice ride...what are the brakes and cranks?...and is that a bad reflection or rim on the front!.
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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby pawnii » Tue Jun 01, 2010 3:30 am

Cranks are THM Clavicula.
Brakes are Ciamillo Gravity Zero
The rims are Edge 1.45 with the stickers taken off. Yeah the reflection from the camera flash really highlights the unidirectional carbon weave.
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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby Nobody » Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:18 pm
toolonglegs wrote:What no 5.9kgs bikes up yet

Mine's great value. More than twice the bike for the less than half the cost. ~13Kg.
Oh the pain of being a weight weenie.

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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby alchemist » Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:21 pm

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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby Scuba23 » Tue Jun 01, 2010 10:26 pm
Nobody wrote:toolonglegs wrote:What no 5.9kgs bikes up yet
Mine's great value. More than twice the bike for the less than half the cost. ~13Kg.
Oh the pain of being a weight weenie.
the saddle and mud guards would weigh 5.9kgs...

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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby pawnii » Thu Jun 03, 2010 2:44 pm
Mine's great value. More than twice the bike for the less than half the cost. ~13Kg.
Oh the pain of being a weight weenie.
haha Nice ride!
I have a Surly LHT which weights about 13kgs too.
To be honest it's been more of a pain building the Surly LHT then it has been with the Scott Addict. Probably because there are so many options with touring add ons.
Being a weight weenies just costs a hell of a lot more



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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby toolonglegs » Thu Jun 03, 2010 3:16 pm
The crazy thing for me is that you could probably take close to another kilo off it if money was no object...and it would still be a pretty safe light weight bike

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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby pawnii » Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:54 am
As my girlfriend said...it would have been a hell of a lot cheaper to get a proper pen!s extension

The crazy thing for me is that you could probably take close to another kilo off it if money was no object...and it would still be a pretty safe light weight bike .
tell me about it. I built my bike while i was single. If i was still single i would have probably got it down to under 5kg

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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby pawnii » Fri Jun 04, 2010 2:59 am
Scuba23 wrote:Nobody wrote:toolonglegs wrote:What no 5.9kgs bikes up yet
Mine's great value. More than twice the bike for the less than half the cost. ~13Kg.
Oh the pain of being a weight weenie.
the saddle and mud guards would weigh 5.9kgs...
Scuba23 what is on your rear fender other then the rear tail light?
It looks like some sort of mounting point for something else.
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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby Nobody » Fri Jun 04, 2010 6:11 pm
It's designed to mount two Cateye TL LD610 lights.pawnii wrote:Scuba23 what is on your rear fender other then the rear tail light?
It looks like some sort of mounting point for something else.
Back on topic:
Where are all the superlight road bikes and where have all the weight weenies gone?
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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby ft_critical » Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:48 pm
My lightest bike, measured on my bathroom scales is a Carbon Colnago Cristallo, Chorus, Carbon ITM and Neutrons. It is a made by Krauss Maffi (who make tanks). I swear it is 8.9kg.
I will have to take it to a shop for a proper weigh in. Then I will put it on some fork control program I think.
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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby ft_critical » Fri Jun 04, 2010 9:51 pm
toolonglegs wrote:
The most enviable part of your bike is....
How on earth did you achieve such a magnificent flat bar to hood position? You couldn't fault that with a spirit level even.
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Re: Show us your super light road bike
Postby pawnii » Fri Jun 04, 2010 11:10 pm
ft_critical wrote:As you are the first weight weenie I have met, what are you weenieing for Pawnii? What drives your weenieness? Sit down on the couch and explain it to us please?
My lightest bike, measured on my bathroom scales is a Carbon Colnago Cristallo, Chorus, Carbon ITM and Neutrons. It is a made by Krauss Maffi (who make tanks). I swear it is 8.9kg.
I will have to take it to a shop for a proper weigh in. Then I will put it on some fork control program I think.
Hi ft_critical.
To answer your question i have no idea where my weenieness comes from. It just got out of hand. I started with the lightest frameset you could buy then decided to do it justice i had to source the lightest parts for it. I also love climbing up mountains so having a light bike disappearing under me makes it more of a pleasure. It has nothing to do with going faster or having an advantage over anyone as i don't race at all. I just really enjoy building bikes and having exotic parts. It's an expensive obsession but i think it's worth doing once in your life.
It helps that i'm a complete show off too

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