Originally Posted by
globecanvas
Given the original question (light weight vs gears) sounds like the consensus is to choose gears over light weight, thanks guys.
But, I wasn't thinking about things properly. The lighter bike has a hollowgram crank, and the hollowgram system is very cool because you can swap out any part individually. I can just get a 110 spider for it and use compact chainrings I already have.
I was looking through pictures with my wife's mother (she visited sort of unexpectedly) and found the picture of the SRM crank etc that I was looking for before.
Total crankset, with SRM spider, cranks, BB, computer head (PCV), wire harness, chainrings, bolts, it weighs 573g.
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