Originally Posted by Ken Cox
Someone earlier in this thread wrote he/she built a 13 pound bike for $500.
With all respect, I suggest he/she weigh the bike again.
I have light everything, including a ti spindle and alloy crank bearing cups.
My bike weighs considerably more than 13 pounds.
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Ken,
This was me and here is a front of a bike in 13 pounds config:
This fork is bianchi 320g (uncut) carbon one, making this frame/fork combination about 2kg
Wheel pictured above is shamal, I weighed the bike with the wheels in these pics (the bike is a different one):
890g front, 1160g rear, cog and tubbies included. Funny, this is not even my lightest wheelset - both mavic argent 7 to Record oldie but goodie and 700C zipp303/650C bora sets are lighter. I do not ride anything but tubulars, anyway.
Thus frameset+wheelset =4050g = 9 pounds.
DA Crankset, BB + chain are almost 2 pounds , carbon seatpost (180g uncut), saddle, stem, bars(220g) and brake account for another 2.
The scales show just this: 6kg = 13,22pounds, BTW I got some of the parts NOS, almost all come second hand from Allegro (Polish equivalent of eBay).
I respect what you have to say in most of your posts but claiming you know the weight of my bike better than me sounds amusing.