Anybody (Gerard?) able to tell me what the expected weight is for this build? The Cervelo website states:
Light enough to build a 6.8kg bike for the mountains, yet strong enough for Paris-Roubaix (2nd place for Tristan Hoffman)
However, this would be for the R2.5 Team and not the Chorus.
I have weighed the both versions of the R2.5 at my shop and the difference is fairly minimal. I am at home right now and don’t remember the exact weights.
That’s interesting, given how the lightness of Dura Ace is always being banged on about. Would it be an imposition to ask if you could post the weights, at a convenient time, when you are back in the shop?
If he tells you it’s minimal - believe it. I’ve seen him weigh two different brands of grease to see which one would be lighter on his seatpost. 
Now, that’s a good one! Which is his shop?
I’m not that bad.
Pretty damn far from England. Let’s just say the Deep South of the U.S.A.
What no web business either?
If they let those southern boys on the computer, they’d spend all their time downloading nasty pictures of brintey spears…
excuse my ignorance, but is she a Southern girl?
The Pride of Kentwood, Louisiana…
Why, thank you, Sir.
All I can say is that the frame seems super light when lifting it, stroking it, drolling on it etc etc. Also I think I have only seen one other in the UK (other than in expo’s or shops) at the Swindon Duathlon last year. I am sure the buble wrap on Easton forks that It came with weighed more then the forks! I have put my 404’s in the frame and it just seems stupidly light.
I am almost ready to start my build and when I do I will post some picks of the work in progress. I picked up a Syntace E99 Stem with ti bolts a few weeks ago from MDT-products, which is also wickedly light. I got my DA groupset Yesterday, but they had not sent the brakes yet and the cranks where the wrong length. I have ordered some 3t less 199 bars, which seem to be lighter than most carbon bars, but half the price.
The only problem I see with all this jew like bike stuff is that it is to nice to ride on the UK’s wet and muddy roads!
"The only problem I can see with all this jewel like bike stuff is that it is too nice to ride on the UK’s wet and muddy roads! "
But, consider that it comes at the price of a good training bike and it is all put in perspective!
Which 3t bars did say?
They are the called “Less 199” , I think they have replaced the Prima 199’s - though they seemed to be the same wieght so it is probably just a slight name change.
I was a bike show today and it was funny listening to the Issac and Scott rep’s discussing there bikes. “Yes our C1 ltd is 14lb” reply “oh yes that quite heavy our Issac here is 13lb’s”.
Just weighed the R2.5 with Dura ace is 16.3 lbs and the Chorus is 16.8 lbs.
Thanks for that. Just out of interest what is the difference between the Velomax Vista and the Circuit? Is the Vista just a Campag version of the Circuit? I can’t find any info on the Vista on the Velomax site.
The Velomax Circuit is 1650 grams and the Vista is 1797 grams.
Thanks, I really meant rim and hub wise, but that is the bottom line! I guess that the majority weight difference is there although I seem to recall rading somwhere that the Superlight full carbon fork on the Team is considerably lighter than the fork on the Chorus.
what sizes were those?
I weighed a Team Issue 54cm at my LBS a few weeks ago and it was 15.5lbs dead on…