Show us your super light road bike

[pawnii]

Ok ppl. Give us some pics and weights of your pride and joy

[The Womble]

I like this thread and hope it keeps going. Mine will have to wait till Ive replaced the 1.8!kg aluminium frame and Aksiums though. 7.8kg hand built so far. Gimee' six months

[toolonglegs]

Come on pawnii...we know you want to show .
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 .

[sogood]

... 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).

[JV911]

interesting site

[sogood]

interesting site

Carbon cassette. Cardboard next?

[The Womble]

interesting site

Carbon cassette. Cardboard next?

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

[The Womble]

Crap. Wrong quote!

[sogood]

Crap. Wrong quote!

That says a lot within this context... Poorly assembled by hand.

[toolonglegs]

What no 5.9kgs bikes up yet .
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 .

[pawnii]

5.5kgs

[pawnii]

toolonglegs your bike is huge! Mine is only 49cm haha

[toolonglegs]

Yeah it is pretty big but so am I .
Nice ride...what are the brakes and cranks?...and is that a bad reflection or rim on the front!.

[pawnii]

toolonglegs.. you'd make a good wind block mate

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.

[Nobody]

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.

[alchemist]

Not super-light, but at 7.2kg without trying I was happy.

[Scuba23]

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...

[pawnii]

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

[toolonglegs]

So are you going to dish the dirt on what it has cost you?.

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 .

[pawnii]

ah it's hard to say because i compiled parts from several bikes onto this frameset which i brought used and then built the wheels.
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 now that's freakin light lol

[pawnii]

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.

[Nobody]

Scuba23 what is on your rear fender other then the rear tail light?
It looks like some sort of mounting point for something else.

It's designed to mount two Cateye TL LD610 lights.

Back on topic:

Where are all the superlight road bikes and where have all the weight weenies gone?

[ft_critical]

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.

[ft_critical]

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.

[pawnii]

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