[DirtyMike]

Yup 15 pound race weight.... also not uncommon to see guys with bikes like this adding ice tubes into the seat tube to make weight and let it melt off post inspection...

For the most part guys building bikes like this are not racing them.... they just want to have the best of the best for themselves.

 

[Kevin]

tl;dc

 

[Banshee Rider]

Sounds like some of the IF Custom steel frames we have built up, full DA or hi end campy....... Ending in the 13.5 to 14 pound range on some of the 58cm range builds.......

Sounds like it's time for a new scale. None of the 13K bikes I've had on the scale come close to 13.5lbs, especially steel IF's.

 

[DirtMcGirk]

This is what I would do to a 13.5lb bike.

 

[DirtyMike]

Sounds like it's time for a new scale. None of the 13K bikes I've had on the scale come close to 13.5lbs, especially steel IF's.

Checked with multiple scales............ IF sent us some of the lightest frames we have built, also some of the bianci's were sub 14 as well.......

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

This is what I would do to a 13.5lb bike.

You'd put reflectors on it ?

 

[DirtMcGirk]

I'd like to be seen right before it pogo-sticks up my ass.

 

[daisycutter]

under ten

http://www.light-bikes.com/BikeGallery/

 

[Wumpus]

under ten

http://www.light-bikes.com/BikeGallery/

Wow, those are stupid -- six speed cassettes, 'tuned' this and that(drilling holes in everything), no bar tape

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

 

[jonKranked]

 

[johnbryanpeters]

I think I am getting the hang of this writing gig...

You are. The base is to write. Then write some more. You have a voice, and using it improves it.

 

[TheMontashu]

under ten

http://www.light-bikes.com/BikeGallery/

Build a colnago up for a guy when I was there with flat bars and lightweight wheels, 8.9lbs

 

[DirtMcGirk]

I've had poops heavier then a lot of those bikes.

 

[S.n.a.k.e.]

I think I am getting the hang of this writing gig

As others have said... You are.

I agree. You have the experiences to write Hunter S Thompson style stories or even a Mad Max / Zane Grey mashup...

And then the hipsters can say they were reading GFF when nobody knew him...

 

[johnbryanpeters]

As others have said... You are.

I agree. You have the experiences to write Hunter S Thompson style stories or even a Mad Max / Zane Grey mashup...

And then the hipsters can say they were reading GFF when nobody knew him...

Gawd... One Hunter Thompson was enough. The derivative prose that I have read has been dreck.

 

[Wumpus]

• Cannondale SuperSix Evo Ultimate: US$12,100
• Felt DA1 Di2: US$12,999
• Giant TCR Advanced SL: US$10,300
• Trek Madone 6.9 SSL Leopard/Schleck Edition: US$11,623.47
• Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL4 Di2: US$11,000
• Cervélo R5ca: US$9,800 (frameset only)
• Specialized Venge: US$18,000

 

[c101aviojet]

To add something to the topic, I'd say DHers spent most of their shuttle/lift waiting/parking test riding smoking pot, while roadies tend to use drugs that actually enhance something. As a side note, Dhers do it in public, while roadies tend to do it in their privacy and, actually, pretend to get upset when asked about them.

Regarding light bikes, I've always wondered if beyond a certain limit you get to ride the bike at all, or just hang it on the wall and brag about it on forums. When the mods you do on the bike reach a certain stupidness threshold (=drill holes all along brake levers), I guess that means the reason for your pleasure (and the money spent) is in the single digit scale reading.

 

[metalhead119042]

To add something to the topic, I'd say DHers spent most of their shuttle/lift waiting/parking test riding smoking pot, while roadies tend to use drugs that actually enhance something.

Doesn't it count as enhancement if my next DH run feels faster after its my turn to drive shuttle?

 

[DirtMcGirk]

These days I am into bath salts.

 

[TheMontashu]

• Cannondale SuperSix Evo Ultimate: US$12,100
• Felt DA1 Di2: US$12,999
• Giant TCR Advanced SL: US$10,300
• Trek Madone 6.9 SSL Leopard/Schleck Edition: US$11,623.47
• Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL4 Di2: US$11,000
• Cervélo R5ca: US$9,800 (frameset only)
• Specialized Venge: US$18,000

Take a look at any complete with Di2 or super record

http://www.wrenchscience.com/road/Frames/

There are like 6 there that are 10K + we also have to remember that there are probably 10 more only available as frames that build up well over 10K without even trying

 

[JRogers]

Regarding light bikes, I've always wondered if beyond a certain limit you get to ride the bike at all, or just hang it on the wall and brag about it on forums. When the mods you do on the bike reach a certain stupidness threshold (=drill holes all along brake levers), I guess that means the reason for your pleasure (and the money spent) is in the single digit scale reading.

I spend some time over at the weightweenies forum, mostly just to see pics of some nice road bikes and some interesting tech stuff. But there are a good amount of impractical/ridiculous bikes that get posted up (and if you want to hear some bike setup snobbery, it's the best place to go). Seems like below 15 lbs is not too hard with regular light stuff. Basically just takes some money. Below 13 you start seeing things like all carbon seats, aluminum cassettes, carbon chainrings, cut handlebars, super thin tubes for clinchers, the occasional downtube shifter...on mtbs you see that plus foam grips and super skinny tires, sometimes combined with rigid forks. I wouldn't say those guys don't ride their bikes...but I can't imagine that riding a rigid carbon mtb with 1.8" tires is particularly fun.