Originally Posted by
steelbikeguy
Jim Cunningham did display (at the 2018 CR gathering) a Graftek frame fitted with all of the weight-weenie gear of the era. Among the w.w. gear was the Hi-E hi-lo rear hub.....
My Graftek might have been lighter (or maybe not, it was a 63 cm) Ended up 17.4 lb but could have been under 17 with superlight tubulars. Not bad for such a large frame in the '70s.
Mine had Hi-E rims too, and the front wheel had Hi-E
aluminum "Siamese" spokes (I know, we don't use that word for conjoined twins anymore, but that was a different time...) Hi-E pedals too, which might be lighter than whatever weirdo pedals Jim's bike has there. (Weirdo is a word of praise, to me, they look cool!)
I sold the bike before I got around to making a lighter seatpost for it. Not that the Campy on there was too much of a pig, but my goal was to have zero Campy, and the post was the last holdout. A guy in Nederland bought it. I wonder how many Grafteks went to Europe?