If you haven't seen this already, then feast your eyes on this:

Crumpton special

Beautiful. It is the type of thing that raises lots of questions?
What pedels are those they look like just a spindle?
Anyone know how much it weights?
How do I learn to build bikes like that out of carbon?

I love everything about that bike except the carbon track ends, surely he could have bonded some stainless inserts into it. Those trackends will be destroyed in no time.

AFAK, there are inserts under the carbon and the wheel nuts don't have any serations, plus the nature of the bike means that it won't be having regular wheel changes;

Pedals are aerolite (link)which as you can see, are not much more that a spindle and weigh 33gr. Complete BIKE weighs 3.3kg!

WOW! we have found the bike that satisfies the sub 8lb fixed gear bike thread!

Old news. They had one on display in one of last years bike shows but IIRC it used a CK rear or maybe it was front disc hub. But it is still hot and serves as a bridge between the weightweenie roadie world and the one speed world. Crumpton's work is amazing.

At least this one doesn't have mismatched bolts holding on the rear cog.

Bolt on cogs are the future. Looks good.

A single speed with only a front brake? Looks nice but I'd pop on a rear brake as well, or is that a fixed set-up?

Fixed. Cog is bolted to a disc brake hub where the rotor would normally go.

That is a pretty neat idea.

LoFarkas... you started a revolution!

They could save even more weight if they had gone with chopped-flats-style bars and no brake. Duh.

It only looks fast...that gearing would get you nowhere. Besides, the blue cog looks ghetto against the red/black colour scheme.

I hope I contributed to starting one. People have been doing this for a few years but it looks like it took off now.

Someone owes you royalties.

The pedals are m2 racers if I remember correctly. It is a now-defunct company that made stupid-light parts like nylon headsets.

How much is that frame?

click the nahbs preview links @ the bottom. i like...

According to the article, this bike is a

so I'm pretty sure that depending on the hill, it would probably get you higher in altitude pretty fast. I agree about the cog.

The bike was designed for hill climbing (hence the low gear). They are generally short courses of 2-3km with average grades of 8%-15%. The people who have been winning them lately have been riding superlight fixies with something a little above 2 to 1 ratios. But because it is a road race, they have to have at least one brake. time trial rules apply I think.

kyle

1050g nice.

the bike was designed for hill climbing. Recent winners have been riding superlight fixies with low gears a little above 2 to 1. The courses are generally 2-5km with average grades of 8%-15%. Since its a road race, they have to have at least one brake. Time trial rules apply I think.

damn..oops.

Super Dope