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All,

 

What advice can you give me to make my supposedly light road bike lighter? I'm thinking specifically stem, seatpost, handlebar (all Ritchey Comp at the moment).

 

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You can also try changing those bottle cages... they make carbon ones now... You'll save close to 2kg's if you take the current ones off... What are they made out of? Titanic Metal? LOL

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What about the pedals?  Those Speedplay ones look quite kewl Thumbs%20Up

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Nokon cables maybe... in RED!!

What groupset do you have on there?
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Michelle

I'm sure Mampara listed them...


Zero Gravity bakes.

Ti Speedplay Pedals.

Power Cordz cables.
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Ritchey WCS stem

Easton EC90 seatpost

Campy Hyperion wheels

 

How much do you want to spend? This could get silly... Smile

 

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This for bottle cages

http://www.cyclesdeoro.com/images/Interbike%20Shows/Interbike2002/Lightest_Bike_10-5lb3.jpg

 

This for cranks and pedals

http://www.cyclesdeoro.com/images/Interbike%20Shows/Interbike2002/Lightest_Bike_10-5lb2.jpg

 

And then you can change everything else untill you reach this

http://www.cyclesdeoro.com/images/Interbike%20Shows/Interbike2002/Lightest_Bike_10-5lbs.jpg

 

 
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* Seven aluminium stem with a Ti bolt upgrade - 116g for a 110mm stem.

* Thompson Master Elite seatpost

* Fizik have a new model saddle - not sure of the weight but is quite light from what I can remember

* Nokon Cable outers with jagwire inner cables
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swop your wheels for american classics to save 150g... then swop them back for the zipps and you will be over the weight worries.

 

lightweight crankset would be my advice if you are gonna spend $$
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If you really want to save weight, crankset and pedals are prolly where you can make the best value changes, and they are rotating parts, as a bonus.

 

That said, your bike is at the level where weight saving is more about bragging rights than performance improvement.

 

Diminishing marginal returns.
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