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Old 10-07-18 | 05:56 PM
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Bikes: Foundry Chilkoot Ti W/Ultegra Di2, Salsa Timberjack Ti, Cinelli Mash Work RandoCross Fun Time Machine, 1x9 XT Parts Hybrid, Co-Motion Cascadia, Specialized Langster, Phil Wood Apple VeloXS Frame (w/DA 7400), R+M Supercharger2 Rohloff, Habanero Ti 26

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Phil Wood made a Ti/Magnesium BB at one point and I think WI did a full ti as well (and might still). My SKF unit I don't feel like weighed a ton but it went into a touring bike and it was so long ago and the bike lost weight from the previous touring bike with smaller wheels.

There is still a decent number of great options for 1" in both threaded and threadless not so much for mountain bikes (at least not in quality) but plenty of road bikes. There is a small part of me that wants to run a 1" threadless fork on my Phil Wood Frame but it is an original PW frame from the Apple VeloXS race team so I would rather not change it too much because it looks good as is.

@seamuis had some excellent ideas as far as getting rid of the tuggnuts or hurdy gurdys whatever they call them these days.

[MENTION=389305]Aladin[/MENTION] Scrod probably has more life in one hair on his chain then you will have in your entire life. Though as I write this I realize he does own his own shop so maybe that is not wholly true but his point is valid. People worry so much about weight on everything and forget to ride. "I can shave a milligram from my bike if I use plastic bolts on my bottle cages" is a really dumb ideal that many people follow. I get it lightweight bikes are fun but obsessing over weight can just get silly at points. For UCI races you have to be over a certain weight to ride the bike and some pros have to put weights in their bikes to make them legal so why not just build a weight appropriate bike instead of weighing down your too lite bike.
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