A couple of months ago, the LBS had an Lynskey R-430 built with Chorus in for a Demo. With the first pedal strokes, you knew it was a responsive, STIFF, bike and around 15 or less lbs.
Calling out the parts gurus that hang out here, build your STIFFEST bike under 18lbs. Thanks! KW
can’t I just roll up on a stock Cervelo R3 or something?
About a year ago we helped a dude buildup his r3-sl record,fsa mix. It was pretty nice.
15 lbs x 18 = 8.181
Complete group weights… Lightest to heaviest.
Sram Red, 2214.3gr
Campag SuperRecord, 2218.9gr
Campag Record 11, 2261gr
Shimano 7900, 2282.7gr
Shimano Di2, 2356.6gr
Say 2,400 for a groupo (you could mix and match or get some lite brakes or cranks to optimize this)
about 2,000 frame and fork (and that’s not a super lite set)
headset, stem, bars, cables, seat and seatpost under 2,000
wheesl, tires, tubes tape, skewers, under 2,000
shouldn’t be that hard to get a bike under 18lbs these days
A couple of months ago, the LBS had an Lynskey R-430 built with Chorus in for a Demo. With the first pedal strokes, you knew it was a responsive, STIFF, bike and around 15 or less lbs.
Calling out the parts gurus that hang out here, build your STIFFEST bike under 18lbs. Thanks! KW
Mike P. and I smoked over 18 lbs of weed last year.
stiff not spliff.
LMAO!!!
Right on!
Mike P. holds the record for greatest volume of smoke inhaled from a bong.
His VO2 is off the chain!
My Archon is stiff as a board and weighs in at around 14lbs with the 303’s on it.
Given the weight of wheels and groupsets now, it is not that hard to build a stiff bike well under the UCI limit. FWIW I run SRAM Red with a Vuma crank but you could get under 6.8 kilo without a fancy crank and a good 1200g wheelset.
Oh man. I’m not a huge an of Specialized, but the Tarmac is just about as stiff as a bike can get. Throw an SL (maybe not an SL2?), and I’m sure that you could get it to be one stiff, stiff bike.