Originally Posted by
runningDoc
i'm contemplating spending $$$$ for carbon wheels/carbon cockpit/SRAM Red Cranks Groupt eventually to get it into that 15-16lbs range.
I'm not sure you can. If you further spend around 2000 EUR, you might obtain around 500 g weight reduction, which will reduce your actual 19.29 lbs (8.75 kg) to 18.19 lbs (8.25 kg). Does this worth the effort?
Originally Posted by
runningDoc
the tech will catch up again and lower in price over time as well as get lighter for cheaper eventually.
I am pessimistic about that. I spent lots of hours to find a decent lightweight road bike and I unterstood that the norm for all the providers during the last years was to continuously increase bike weight. I could find a bike below 7 kg in 2015 with 2300-2500 EUR. Now I should have spent 8000+ EUR for such lightweight – insane amount for just a bike. I think they will never go back to lightweight for casual riders.
I got now 7.7-7.8 kg from the start with less than 4000 EUR, but I clearly feel the difference compared with the old 6.65 kg.