Originally Posted by
DubT
What changes are you going to make to the components?
Porting over most everything that was on the 2007 Calfee frame I built up just this last spring. Besides the couplers (and cable-splitters of course) the other most significant
unplanned change is the inclusion of a tapered 1.125/1.5" headtube, plus Enve fork w/tapered steerer and a Chris King Inset headset. I had a custom paint idea that turned out to be $2k, so opt'd out of doing that
I'll start a thread for this new build at some point.
Pertaining to this Gates belt thread, I am toying with the CenterTrack belt idea to make travel life easier... instead of having to mess with cleaning, oiling and transporting a mucky timing chain. I like to keep things very clean and find it hard to do satisfactorily while on a tour. Weight-wise, coming from the 2007 frame the 9spd Sram timing chain & Shimano t-rings weighed 406+86= 492gms total, so there would be some saving with the Gates setup but it's not a huge amount (-200gms?).