1997 Raleigh Torus Titanium. 

This frame came from a member on here. It's history can be traced through every owner it's had from new on this site!

It's a 1997 Ralegh Torus Titanium. 

I build it yesterday as a singlespeed build to see what the weight would be, 19.7lb. 




It was ony built as singlespeed to see what the weight was. I rode it down the road and back and then started putting gears on it. 
Everything is complete now except for the grips, tyres and front mech (on it's way from the Netherlands). 



While I'm waiting for the front mech to arrive I've put a piece of inner tube over the BB shell to prevent damage from the chain. 

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Frame: 1997 Raleigh Torus 1600g

Fork: Pace RC31 720g

Headset: VC COMP (Cane Creek) 124g
Stem: Ritchey WCS 130g
Handlebar: J&L Titanium 580mm 165g
Grips: undecided
Barends: none

Brakes: F: Avid Juicy 5
R: Avid SD7 Lever and M952 XTR V brake
Brake Cables: Jagwire

Shifters: M730 XT thumbshifters
Front Derailleur: M900 XTR 34.9 top pull
Rear Derailleur: M730 XT
Derailleur Cables: Jagwire
Cassette: SunRace 7 speed 11-28 249g
Chain: SRAM PC870
Cranks: Middleburn RS7/8 463g
Crank Bolts: Brand-X Self Extracting
Chainrings: Middleburn 22-32-42 125g
Chainring bolts: Middleburn (out of the same packet, but large variances in colour!)
Bottom Bracket: Raceface SRX ISIS 218g
Pedals: Shimano DX SPD

Hub Skewers: not arrived
Rims:Mavic X517
Hubs: Hope Titanium Disc
Tyres: IRC Mythos

Saddle: Flite Titanium 205g
Seatpost: J&L Titanium 27.2 400mm 190g
Seatpost Binder: Hope

Weight: 20.2lb (no pedals)

Liking the inner tube over the BB - gonna have to try that

Looks great ! Almost exactly what I had planned for it Pace forks and nice bit of red anno going nicely against the blue.

New stuff on the spec.
Weight now 20.2lb, so near yet so far
Just realized how big those pictures are!
Hopefully I'm riding it for the first time tomorrow, at Llandegla!

I'm sure this would be a great thread if the pictures where not so huge.

Had a bit of a rebuild. 
I stripped the paint off which saved 16 grams!
XTR M952 shifters, f & r mechs, titanium QR's, XT M737 cassette, new chainset spider. 

Weight is now 18.75lb with RC31 (no pedals)




21.1 lb with Bomber Z2 BAM (no pedals)

The smaller pictures saved a few pounds too!!!!

That saddle angle is going to do some serious damage Excellent weight saving skillz though!

Any chance of an update on your Torus Rampage?
Just love to see more pics

I will update this sometime!
It's been inbetween builds for a long time. It currently has Trimnell forks and drop bars! Hopefully going back to straight bars soon(?) though. Also one of the XTR STI units has stopped shifting
There are more red anodized parts waiting to go on now, maybe too much