What is the worlds lightest production road frame, wheels, and ect.
I dont know if its the lightest but its up there:
http://www.evertibikes.com/Project%2013.htm
I’m sure a R2.5 Bayonne or that crazy Trek that Lance used last year up the Alpe d’Huez is also light as a feather…
Nope.
Lance and CSC had to add weight to their bikes to keep them legal.
You won’t find a “super light” bike in the tour.
Does anyone have the link for weight weenies?
http://www.light-bikes.com/BikeGallery/BikeSelect.asp?catid=3
9.1 lb Ghisallo
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http://www.light-bikes.com/BikeGallery/BikeSelect.asp?catid=3
Check out the Ghisallo at 9.13lbs. All production parts (though some are insanely expensive).
yes I know they had to add weight
I meant before they added weight…the bikes would be pretty light i.e. I’m sure the Bayonne that Gerard is peddling does not include the “authentic UCI” links of chain down the seattube that they had to throw in to make minimum weight for the tour
Floyd Landis rides a 7.2 kg BMC with full recordset. This is 0.5kg above the UCI limit. He does not change the bike for an ultra-light climbing bike. From what I read that tiny little amount of weight make no difference at all.
Gotta love the UCI. Those links of chain down the seat tube make the bike much safer.
World’s lightest bike is 9.19 lbs http://weightweenies.starbike.com/articles.php?ID=21
World’s lightest production road frame, wheels etc would appear to be this Giant http://weightweenies.starbike.com/articles.php?ID=65
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Couldn’t all of these be lighter if built up with a 650 wheel set?
Aloha,
Larry
Julian, I think the Ghisallo on light-bike beats the weight weenies bike by .04 lb…but what’s .04 between friends? I take more issue with the weight weenies bike having to do things like chop off the drops on the handlebar, and mount them so the tops and hoods positions are all but unusable, AND that he had to give up 2 cassette cogs (making it “only” 7-speed, vs maintaining 9 for the Ghisallo)…
they could all be lighter using the Bartol system of Tiso.
gets rid of all the shifting stuff for the front. no front derailleur, no front derailleur cables, just brake lever for the front.
also the R2.5 at 14.22lbs on the site of the ghisallo…I think I’ve seent his bike here 
jmh??
There are now several light frames under the magic 900 gram barrier in a medium size including our Ghisallo. As for these ultralight bikes as found on weightweenies and lightbikes they are very neat projects but are certainly not for everybody. They for example utilize friction downtube shifters, tiny carbon shell saddles, track tires and drilled out everything. So even if the UCI limit was not as is, I doubt you’d see a sub 13 pound bike in the European peloton. Well, maybe in an uphill TT.
Cheers,
Herbert
Litespeed/QR
the drilling thing is as old as cycling…in the early 70s, they had tons of bikes for the mountains with everything drilled, derailleurs, shifters, pulleys, even tubes, and wheels! that and no bar tape!
maybe it’s light but I am not sure I’d like going downhill with one of these!
I like the guy on the light-bikes site who made it into the “platinum” category with a Cannondale R600! Sure, he changed a bunch of parts to high-end stuff, but much of it isn’t even close to being the lightest stuff around…
I’m with you on the “modifications”, Brian. But, I guess there should be two catergories, modified and unmodified or stock. That would be more relevant to most of us. My r2.5 is coming in comfortably under 15 lbs without modifing anything, which is important as it will be my daily ride.
Stop talking about your R2.5 please. I’m already green with envy!..mine’s still a long way off…
Here ya go. Check out the drilled holes in the rear der. cogs
I didn’t realise you were after one, too! You won’t regret it. I went out for 3 hours last evening, it climbs like a dream, descends so sure footed that you can throw it around for fun. Of course, it is a thing of beauty too.
Once, I get around to getting some batteries for the camera, I will post up some pics for you.
Check out the drilled holes in the rear der. cogs
Actually I think that is a nearly stock Sachs Hurret Jubilee rear deraileur that was in production from the mid 80’s until about 94’. In the image on the site, the owner has replaced the stock jockey pulleys with DA 10 speed pulleys but I recall that in the 80’s, the plastic pulleys were usually replaced with alloy pulleys and a lot of time holes where drilled around the perimeter of the cage (both sides) that holds the jockey pulleys! I raced with a guy in the 80’s who used that deraileur with a custom alloy cogset for races - he was so obesessed with his bikes weight that he had drilled everything that could be drilled (including the crank arms of his Campy Record crank) on a bike made from Reynolds 753 CroMo sporting custom wheels and Clement’s lightest tubulars (150gm?). I never understood the weight obesession as the guy was only about 5’9" and weighed about 140 on a bad day and even though his race bike tipped the scales at just under 13 pounds back in 86’, he once commented that the trick Sachs rear deraileur did not shift worth a darn due to lateral flex under heavy loads like when climbing - go figure.