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Old 10-05-18 | 06:15 PM
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1speed4me
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Originally Posted by veganbikes
Here are good quality ones that may or may not be lightweight: Phil Wood, IRD Defiant/QB-95, SKF and White Industries. Those are all high quality square taper BBs and I will take better bearings and longer life then weight anytime.

If you want to save weight, remove the Tuggnuts, grab a carbon fork from say Wound Up Composites because they still make a 1" threaded carbon fork. Or you can do a conversion and get a 1" threadless headset from say Cane Creek or Chris King or Phil Wood and then do a Ritchey Comp fork (I think IRD or Soma or Tange basically one of the companies related to Merry Sales Co. also makes a 1" threadless carbon fork). This will allow you to use a lighter weight threadless stem (you might need to shim it if you are using a 1 1/8 stem) then maybe look at a shallower section wheel, a lighter seatpost and maybe a lighter bar either carbon or titanium.

If you wanted to keep the current set up then I would find a lighter weight quill stem and seatpost and swap out bars and of course shallower section wheels.

However me I would probably keep the set up as is and ride the damn bike. It is a good looking set up. I would change wheels and tires for myself to like a H+Son TB14 or similar rim and a tan wall tire and maybe some polished hubs (Phil Wood would look the best but Paul are just fine by me)
I also value long term reliability over lightness, I’m hoping to find the best balance of both.

The Tuggnuts (actually Hurdy Gurdy’s) keep the wheel in place and allow me the fine adjustment that I need to fit the 32’s (it’s very, very close between the chainstays). They are heavy, I don’t like them, but they do work very well and I wouldn’t trust the wheel to stay where I left it without them. The forward dropouts are the thing that I dislike the most about this bike but it’s a sacrifice that I made.

Thanks for sharing all of those fork options! I had no idea those even existed. I’ll definitely keep them in mind.

Along with the tires I also have some Conti race 28 tubes coming to try out, so I will be loosing a fair amount of rotational weight.

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