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11-17-23, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by vuurmot

You will lose the most weight in the wheels

Carbon wheels, TPU tubes, lightweight tyres

Maybe a 3d printed saddle ~180g

17lb is really easy to reach on a rim brake bike tbh

Just general weight optimizations could get you there

The stock Fulcrum Racing 900 wheelset are 1880g thus to your point just going to a 1400g or less wheelset you are saving 480g alone which. With this being said a CAAD13 Disc is 20lbs stock, but there is no info on what a rim brake 105 CAAD 13 weighs, however most identical model Disc vs Rim bikes vary by 300g-400g. Thus maybe the CAAD 13 rim brake weighs 19.12lbs, thus shedding another 480g with a 1400g carbon wheelset brings the bike down another 1.05lbs to 18.1lbs. Using TPU 36 tubes vs butyl tubes 110g each would save 296g or another .65lbs or the bike to 17.45lbs. Fizik Aliante Delta, S-alloy rails is probably a pretty heavy saddle probably in the 230g-240g range. Going to something like a Bontrager Aeolus RSL saddle which is 142g would cut around 98g .21lbs thus bringing the bike to 17.24lbs before you add pedals, mounts, cages, bottles, ect.

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