Originally Posted by saunterer
I'm looking at all those tour-caliber bikes with 1100g carbon frames. (giant, de rosa, felt, trek, scott, etc..) Thing is, I don't see much difference between them.... they just rave about how they have this unique badass carbon and no one else does. If there is an actual difference, please enlighten me.... The only two unique frames i've seen
scott cr1 - because it is 880grams!
cannondale synapse - huge bottom bracket casing, which is what i am interested in. There's a bit on it
here. Does anybody know how much this thing weighs on the synapse?
You mean the enlarged bottom bracket shell? (it's an idea geared towards increasing bearing size over the current standard)
You can get a similar benefit by using an external bearing crankset with a regular sized BB shell.
I'm not sure which one is better.