Building a 12 pound fixed speed bike. Possible?
Pardon my intrusion into your illustrious forum! I am contemplating to add a fixed bike to my stable and I think a light one I can ride fast would do the trick.
I like to build bikes and thought a 12 pound fixed speed bike would be a nice project. I already have a 17 pound CAAD12 so I want this one to be extra light.
I figure 4 pounds for the frameset, 4 pounds for the wheelset and tires and 4 pounds for the saddle,post,bars, stem etc is doable.
But when I look at the bikes on offer (i.e. Kilo TT) they are all close to 20 pounds which seems odd as my CAAD only cost $1300 and has a full 5800 groupset on it. That groupset weights 5.5 pounds and if you subtract the crank and chain it would weight 3.5 pounds.
So is a 12 pound fixed speed bike doable and is it desirable (i.e. does having weight add something). I'm riding this on the road/MUPs not on a track.