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29er / Re: Workswell WCB-M-062
« on: July 13, 2016, 07:04:51 AM »New wheels on the 062 Singlespeed. Weight dropped from 1765 grams to 1575 grams.
Total bike weight is down to 21.1 with heavy SLX trail pedals. My goal is to eventually get it below 20 with pedals but I think it's going to be tough without dropping a crap ton of money. I know the stem is one relatively cheap place I could save some weight as it's an OEM stem from my daughters GT Avalanche. The other place is the crankset. I could loose 100 to 150 grams by going with a Sram carbon direct mount setup or 250 grams with a RF NEXT sl crank. But those will be $200 or $400. The seatpost weighs in at 240g, I'm not sure I can save a whole lot there and still have some setback.
So with my wife's build almost wrapped up and starting to collect parts for the builds for my 2 daughters, I don't think there is much bike money left for me.
I scored my Next cranks on Pinkbike for $250 including the chainring. They're a couple years old but in great shape. With the release of the new G4 Next SLs the older ones have dropped in price a bit. I was extremely impressed with how stiff and light they were. My eBay carbon seatpost weighed in at 215g and if I recall correctly it was $21 shipped but it has no setback. My girlfriend is short as well so we trimmed about 3.5" off of it so it's even lighter now.