Still no photos, but all I have left to do is wrap the bars. I will maybe start a new thread when the bars are wrapped. I wanted to update this thread on the weight topic. I cut the steertube down by 78g, and that leaves 10cm above my threadless stem at the max height I would want. I may cut it again after some shake down rides.
The total weight came in at 24.3lbs. That doesn't mean a lot without a build list, which I'll post soon. Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 10:31:33 AM UTC-8, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > I finally bought a BMC Monstercross frameset. Why? Because it's dumb not > to buy one. The only thing that had been stopping me was the horizontal > dropouts, because vertical dropouts are categorically better. Since the > last time I decided horizontal dropouts were a dealkiller, I've acquired 4 > bikes with horizontal dropouts, and guess what? I didn't die. Vertical > dropouts are better, but horizontals are not the end of the world. The > BRIGHT green colorway of the latest batch made it irresistable. So, new > bike day? The build will be a drop bar mountain bike. No racks, no > lights, no fenders. It'll be used for 2-3 hour mountain bike rides. I'll > post photos when there is something to look at. I have a couple small > details to iron out. > > In the meantime, there have been a couple gram-counter threads recently, > and I thought I'd offer up another datapoint while I have a bare frame and > fork: > > A 58cm Black Mountain Monstercross frame, with Cane Creek 40 headset cups > pressed in, weighs 2257g > The fork with a crown race installed and an uncut threadless steerer is > 1057g > > Use that data for whatever you like. > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
