the < 22lb steel club

[Agency_Scum]

I've slipped back on the weight a teeny bit by removing the superlight Gripshifters and fitting DX thumbies. They just feel soooo good and ( as CCE will soon realise ) are the BEST shifters for nightrides being the only ones you can " feel " what gear you're in. Granted a headtorch can light up your bars but who wants to take their eyes and lights off the trail on a fast nightride?

 

[cce]

I've slipped back on the weight a teeny bit by removing the superlight Gripshifters and fitting DX thumbies. They just feel soooo good and ( as CCE will soon realise ) are the BEST shifters for nightrides being the only ones you can " feel " what gear you're in. Granted a headtorch can light up your bars but who wants to take their eyes and lights off the trail on a fast nightride?

my winter SS gear will go on soon, and then i'll have no such issues

 

[Agency_Scum]

Definitely going to fit the VERY renovated Syncros titanium BB when I get the chance. Needed lots of love ( and filing and mole grips and vice work ) but well worth the tenner I paid for it at the Bike Jumble.

 

[MikeD]

This is 22 on the nose on my scales:



(yes, chain slack, I know...)

 

[Unclejack]

my Muddyfox Monarch comes in at 21.94. I have a 48t outer chain ring that took the weight to just over the 22lb target, but then i got a 38 for the front with the intention of running it as a double. I think 38 – 11 should be high enough for most circumstances. Once the stem & quill bolt have been shortened and seat post and other bolts looked at there are some bar ends to go on, or the 3rd ring will go on if i really can't live as a double. Quite happy as not a “boutique” part in sight. will only get lighter as the right parts come up. Frame came in at 1.8kg btw.

Tyres - mythos
Tubes – schwalbe presta
Wheels - Dx hubs 32 hole 3 cross to mavic x317’s with DT butted spokes
Skewers – spare set of bontrager ones i had kicking about, but might be ti, but they are proper lever type ones though
Block - unknown but its a standard 11 – 28 steel shimano
Rear mech – polished lx m550 with a short cage off a dx fitted
Frame muddy fox monarch – suggest fuji stout lite tubing?
Forks - what i had spare – came off a giant escaper so hardly high end but weighed in at 800g so not too bad
Chain – unknown
Bottom bracket – spare un71 i had
Cranks m900
Pedals – entry level eggbeaters
Chainring bolts - generic
Crank bolts – generic steel
Chain rings – tioga 24, TA 38
Front mech - m900
Headset – richey logic
Stem - zoom - unmodified with original full length steel bolt
Bars – x lite 535 ali – these are still over 200g though
Seat post –generic 27mm with plastic shim, steel hardware
Seat – halford own brand “bikehut” – but might be ti railed
Seat bolt – steel allen bolt
Brakes – m900 cantis
Brake levers m 900 which have had the pods sawn off
Shifters – dx thumbies
Cables & outers – generic.

 

[xerxes]

A lot of the 'mountain' biking I have done involves carrying, and lifting over obstacles.

Lower weight certainly helps with this.

When I was chased across a field by a heard of bullocks, I somehow found the strength to lob 25lbs of bike over a gate and myself after it.

 

[Agency_Scum]

Holy revived thread!