Hey that looks great and the weight is quite impressive for a bike of this age.
The stickers on the wheels are a bit too flashy for my taste... but sometimes it is a pain to remove stickers if the manufacturer used a sub par glue.
What kind of wheels do you have on order?
I hope some Chinertown conform species... ;-)
The Emonda SL frame also sounds interesting, what groupset do you plan to use?
Have a great weekend!
Ican carbon wheels, 38mm deep weighing in at 1370 +/-20 grams, came out to $565USD with tax and shipping on Amazon Prime. As far as I know they're high quality Chinese wheels. I was REALLY close to getting a TanTan/Seraph or AirWolf frame but two things got me set on the Trek 1) It was $520 shipped to my house in good condition and the frame weighs about as much as most of the Chinese frames (with the exception of the super light frames that weigh like 800 grams) and 2) I'm really impatient. All the frames I liked on eBay wouldn't get to my house until late March at the earliest and some said they wouldn't get here until May or even June... so fuck that lol, I can't wait that long- I'd loose my mind. The Emonda was the lightest production frame at the time so I'm honestly really psyched- according to FedEx, it should be getting here on Monday.
I have a mix of R7000/R6800 stuff on my Klein which for the time being I'll transfer to the Emonda. R7000 GS medium-cage rear derailleur, R7000 braze-on front derailleur, R6800 crankset with both 50/34 rings and 53/39 rings, Sensah 11-34 cassette I just got that weighs 228 grams(!!!!over 100 grams less than the Shimano 11-34 I had and only cost like $85USD!!!!), I haven't ridden outside yet but I put the cassette on last night to see how it shifted and though it *might* sound a bit more noisy, to loose that much weight on an 11-34 cassette, it's an acceptable trade-off IMO. I have Look Classic 3 pedals, not too light- something like 285~grams for the pair, and I have SRAM Apex brakes I'm taking off the Trek- the Klein uses long-reach brakes in the back so I'm using the Shimano long reach that came on it in the back and Ultegra 6600 on the front, so I'll probably use some old Ultegra 6500 brakes on the green bike (which are still fairly light- a little over 150 grams a piece).
What I'm planning to do is build up a Di2 groupo for the Emonda, I already got the shifters from Merlin for like $137USD (amazing fucking price and they are SO light- 313 grams for the set) for a set of 10/11 speed 6770 shifters- so I still have another $500-$700 to go in terms of buying derailleurs, wires, junction boxes, batteries, etc. However, since I can't afford the Di2 setup for some time and I'm not going to have this dope-ass frame just laying around for months, I'll just throw the R7000/R6800 groupo on there in the meantime.
Oh, so with that Sensah cassette, my Klein weighed in at 7.8kgs/17.2lbs last night- those Ican wheels are coming today and I have a set of Bontrager R3 tires (405~grams for the pair) so I'm *pretty* sure I'll have the Klein (which is alloy with carbon seat-stays and an EC90 fork) in the mid 16s and mid or hopefully low 7s. I ordered a lighter carbon fork for the green Trek last night which should be getting here on Tuesday, so with the fork and the lighter wheel/tire combo it might even be lighter than the Klein- which is a bit surprising because I'm running that huge 11-42 cassette , the Sensah long-cage derailleur is pretty heavy and the shifters aren't exactly light either. I guess no front derailleur and only one chainring balances it out a little bit. We'll see once the wheels and tires get here. I'd post pics of the Klein, but it looks really fucking goofy with the green wheels- I'll post another response with the wheels on the green Trek and the Klein when they come in and I mount the tires later today- will update the weights, as well.
Any tips/advice/suggestions for removing those green decals? Sometimes I like them, but they're definitely very green and they only work with one bike- and I also really like the look of bare deep-section carbon wheels. I've heard of the hairdryer method and also a heat-gun but I'm kinda scared of using a heat-gun on carbon wheels and maybe delaminating the carbon.