Ok that's funny on the Riv List. I just happened to check the Crust site the other day - hadn't looked in months - and they have one for sale with ti cranks and rainbow cassette and all kinds of crazy lightness. Not my thing (or price, $8k!!!) but it's cool 😎
Joe "needs a rainbow cassette on his custom" Bernard On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 2:03:06 PM UTC-7 Nick Payne wrote: > I have a Open Upper, which is weight weenie everything except for two > things: the tyres, which are Compass Bon Jon Pass 700x35 (though they are > the ultra light casing version), and the saddle, which is a Berthoud > Aravis. Complete with pedals and bottle cages, it weighs about 8Kg > (17½lbs). It's really a very comfortable bike to ride. It'll take tyres up > to 44mm in 700c or 50mm in 650b. > [image: IMG_20180822_163810[1].jpg] > > On Tuesday, 23 March 2021 at 10:56:28 am UTC+11 Joe Bernard wrote: > >> The first place to go for weight savings you can feel when riding are (in >> this order) tires, tubes, rims. All that stuff rotating way out there adds >> up fast. Then ditch racks, fenders, front derailer and its shifter, extra >> chainrings. That'll getcha down to a base weight that's still ridable and >> Rivish; beyond this you're looking at weight weenie hubs, bars, stems, >> seatposts. And that Brooks B17 is out! > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/dd5539ae-3f5b-417c-ae18-69bc6ebe4fd3n%40googlegroups.com.
