Originally Posted by
ctak
A friend built up a T1500 frame with Ultegra mechanical and Hunt 50s. His XL (also white) frame alone weighed in at 1320g. Total build with Assioma PM pedals 8.6kg. Around $4500 total cost. Not something I'd go for but he seems to like it as well.
Yeah total for my Winspace T1500 Force/Rival AXS not including the pedals, cages, and accessories was $4200 and that included a LBS building it up. Some of the biggest weight savers or at least keeping the weight down was TPU tubes (36g) and carbon saddle 130g. Again OP's question posts was people getting more cutting edge bikes but them weighing and costing a ton more. I think going to a Chinese brand or mixing groupsets you can skirt this problem to a huge degree since 18lbs, $4200, 12 speed electronic shifting as shown for an Aero bike IMO can't be had via any big bike brand period. Whether you can get behind a Chinese brand and allow yourself not to care about the name on the frame is your own prerogative but the crazy thing is there are even cheaper brands like Elves and Yoeleo that provide very similar quality