I found my Legolas data from when I was posting about that build. The Legolas frame + fork + headset was 6.30 pounds. Apples to apples, the 57cm Leo Roadini is 1.45 pounds heavier than a 57cm Legolas. That's almost the weight of one full water bottle. That's pretty consistent with my expectations.
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 5:12:40 PM UTC-7, Bill Lindsay wrote: > > We have a good digital scale in the lab at my office. Frame+fork+headset > weighed in at a stoutish 7.75 pounds. I'll separate frame and fork and get > those rough weights separately before I start the build, and I'll compare > that to my data for my 57 Legolas. My recent 58cm Black Mountain > Monstercross weighed 7.13 pounds for frame + fork + headset. > > Bill Lindsay > El Cerrito, CA > > On Wednesday, May 23, 2018 at 1:26:41 PM UTC-7, Bill Lindsay wrote: >> >> I used to own two Black Mountain Road bikes. Both 59cm, both orange. >> One lives at my mom's house and is set up as an all purpose road bike. The >> other, at my house, used to be set up as a racier, lighter stripped down >> road bike. I ran across an iBob lister who wanted a Black Mountain road >> frame for a little less than retail, and we struck a deal. I took those >> dollars and my Hail Mary dollars and my Rivendollars to get a Leo Roadini >> frameset, and I picked that up today. The build will be exactly what I had >> on my Black Mountain, except it'll have a quill stem and a 26.8mm >> seatpost. The result will be a still-sporty road bike, but one that's a >> little more upright and civilized. I think of it as having a vibe similar >> to what we used to call a "sport touring" bike in the 1980s. My still-new >> Legolas will be my aggro-race-bike. I expect to get right into the build >> tonight, since I have everything. Fun detail: the quill stem will be a >> Nitto-Ritchey-Force from a 1993 XO-1. I haven't planned out the fit in a >> super detailed way, but I might end up with the stem totally slammed. This >> 57 has a tall headtube. This frame will allow me to get the bars WAY up, >> if and when I need to do that. For now, I expect that they'll be up even >> when they're down. >> >> Bill Lindsay >> El Cerrito, CA >> >> P.S. To their credit, multiple Riv employees asked "What are you buying >> this for? You've got a road bike!" When I explained the "trade", then >> they were like "Oh, OK, that makes sense then" >> > -- 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.
