got all the parts today, frm lockrings work fine, verhuteli ok, zylons not installed yet because there is an incompatibility with the da mech. bcompostes had to be modified cos of the bottlecage mounts...
paduano is now 8240 g light
Monday 14 December 2009
Monday 7 December 2009
miscellaneous parts
i have been spending some cash on cool parts lately...r2-bike.de is a nice shop where you can find all kinds of things , especially if you are bike- weight-concerned like myslef(sounds stupid i know) ! the guys at r2-bike.de are really nice and helpful, so check them out!
among various things i will be upgrading the front mech with a dura-ace braze on...you will say, ok but how are you going to install a braze-on front mech without a brze on the frame....easy ! with a carbon-braze-on adapter!
xtr=130gr dura ace =65+5gadapter!....-60g!
cables will be changed aswell with du-ponts...
normal jagwire teflon cables(what i use now) weight around 15gr, the duponts only 2.7!...-24.6g
tune verhuterli stemcap 6.5g...gumgum+stemcap+bolt=16...-9.5g
grand total...94.1g..so almost another 100gr...the paduano will hopefully reach 8.3kg!!!
among various things i will be upgrading the front mech with a dura-ace braze on...you will say, ok but how are you going to install a braze-on front mech without a brze on the frame....easy ! with a carbon-braze-on adapter!
xtr=130gr dura ace =65+5gadapter!....-60g!
cables will be changed aswell with du-ponts...normal jagwire teflon cables(what i use now) weight around 15gr, the duponts only 2.7!...-24.6g
tune verhuterli stemcap 6.5g...gumgum+stemcap+bolt=16...-9.5g
grand total...94.1g..so almost another 100gr...the paduano will hopefully reach 8.3kg!!!
DT Swiss XRC 1250 Wheelset
time has passed and the paduano has suffered a few modifications....
first of all a new inner seatpost was installed , a kcnc tiprolite and an aluminum seatpostclamp which has brought the weight down another 150gr.
the big news is that i have ordered a set of dt swiss xrc 1250. they usually come at arund 2000e which is outrageous given the fact that you can build similar weight wheels for 900euros, but i have found them in an almost new state at only 925e and bought them. the main reason is that they have a 90kg weight limit due to the carbon rims! they also come with ceramic bearings (190hubs) which is also a very nice asset! you can have slightly lighter wheels built with ztr race rims and tune hubs but you have to be 80 kgs heavy , which i am not and will never be! so, for the little bit heavier fellow the xrc 1250 are ideal...
they have flaws apparently, although the rims are carbon , they are not the stiffest wheelset on the planet and this is nicely said, and they are center lock, which means you have to use an adapter whch comes at 30grams (adapter+lockring). 30x2=60gr. i saw the wheelset on the scale wo the adapters and it had 1210gr. 1210+60= 1270gr complete with adapter which is decent for 90kg! the good news is that the center lock that comes with the wheels has 10gr. the guys from light-bikes.de gave me a good hint meaning that you can replace the dt swiss lockrings with a durace 12t one which shaves 10grams from the wheelset , meaning that you reach 1260gr! NICE!
my current wheelset has on the scale 1480gr...1480-1260=220gr shaved off and i am coming close to 8400g! the target is 8.3kg, when i reach that i will probably stop, although i have wet dreams about the thm clavicula...1000e for a cranskset without chainrings is still too much for my pocket at the moment, maybe in the future!
here are a few pics of the dt swiss xrc 1250
first of all a new inner seatpost was installed , a kcnc tiprolite and an aluminum seatpostclamp which has brought the weight down another 150gr.
the big news is that i have ordered a set of dt swiss xrc 1250. they usually come at arund 2000e which is outrageous given the fact that you can build similar weight wheels for 900euros, but i have found them in an almost new state at only 925e and bought them. the main reason is that they have a 90kg weight limit due to the carbon rims! they also come with ceramic bearings (190hubs) which is also a very nice asset! you can have slightly lighter wheels built with ztr race rims and tune hubs but you have to be 80 kgs heavy , which i am not and will never be! so, for the little bit heavier fellow the xrc 1250 are ideal...
they have flaws apparently, although the rims are carbon , they are not the stiffest wheelset on the planet and this is nicely said, and they are center lock, which means you have to use an adapter whch comes at 30grams (adapter+lockring). 30x2=60gr. i saw the wheelset on the scale wo the adapters and it had 1210gr. 1210+60= 1270gr complete with adapter which is decent for 90kg! the good news is that the center lock that comes with the wheels has 10gr. the guys from light-bikes.de gave me a good hint meaning that you can replace the dt swiss lockrings with a durace 12t one which shaves 10grams from the wheelset , meaning that you reach 1260gr! NICE!
my current wheelset has on the scale 1480gr...1480-1260=220gr shaved off and i am coming close to 8400g! the target is 8.3kg, when i reach that i will probably stop, although i have wet dreams about the thm clavicula...1000e for a cranskset without chainrings is still too much for my pocket at the moment, maybe in the future!
here are a few pics of the dt swiss xrc 1250
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