finally finished the bike!!

allthegearnoidea

Well after 18 months of riding it i have finally finished the bike!!
the last parts arrived this morning and are all fitted, cleaned and ready for tomorow! and i am a Very happy bunny!! as i always am when somehting cool arrives int he post!!!

so to mark the occasion i thought i'd give it a bit of a clean up and take a picture!!! apologies for the lack of gratuitous Fence shots and the mess visable through the shed door!! i need to work on the finding a good spot for pics that includes a bit of lawn and the fence!!!


i think its around the 22lb mark, althoguh have no scales to test it on at the mo, but also built the lot on a very tight budget mostly thanks to some major bargains on ebay!
spec is Carbon frame (has Carborn symbol on it??) which is a copy of the bianci super grizzly,
Xero Session freeride wheels (130gr heavier than the xc ones and due to my weight advised for the extra strength)
Panaracer Cinders 2.25/2.1 and Tesco tubes,
RS sid forks,
Kore the Red one 80mm stem,
FSA Kforce riser bars,
toxins lock on grips,
FSA Kforce seatpost,
Carbon race saddle (titanium rails),
FSA carbon pro cranks,
KMC X9L Gold chain,
XT M770 cassette,
Race Face signiture Bottom bracket,
XT M750 shifters and mech's,
KCNC jockey wheels,
XTR cables,
Crank bro's candy oem pedals,
Hope Mini brakes 185/165,
and finally hope seat clamp and KCNC crank bolts!

all but the brakes and shifters/mech's haas been upgraded and they are the opnly parrts left over from the old bike (which is being built back up with the old parts!) but the whole lot has cost me less that £550!

the bike has taken a lot of abuse over the last 18 months, especially since i joined Cornwall mtb and started to learn to ride properly! and have to say its a Joy to ride! even with that saddle! :shock: 8)

have that feeling of being very pleased with myself at the mo! haha!

toasty

Nice, it's killing for some lighter wheels though Bet it's over 22lbs but only because you've got a about 2-3lbs of extra weight over a light bike on the wheels.

The Xero Freeride wheels are built with plain gauge spokes and heavy hubs which don't add strength, only weight. You could get a rock solid 1600g wheelset which would knock 1.5lbs off. There's another spare pound hiding in the tyres and tubes if you wanted even lighter

Any idea of what the frame weighed before you built it up just out of interest? Looks interesting

allthegearnoidea

frame was 4lb when naked!

i know the wheels arnt the lightest but! i simply coulndt afford a lighter set! (every time i managed to save enough for them something would go wrong and the money would go lol!) a 1600g set would knock 500g off, agreed that i could save on tubes (250g for the tesco ones) but they are decent tubes and i can pick them up with my shopping lol! dont mind when a tube costs £1.80, but not so keen on a fiver a tube type!

i'd love to get it as light as possible with some uber light wheels and tyres etc, and some Spinner Aeris pro forks etc. but i just cant afford to spend that money on it lol! the forks alone would prolly cost mor ethan the entire build has hahah!

toasty

Ah your forks are already lighter than the vast majority available nowadays anyway They're lighter than the Fox on my Zaskar by a decent margin. You'd certainly not save more than about 0.5lb from that end.

Yeah fair point about the price though! Getting wheels that are light is one thing, getting light and strong is another step up entirely! My XTs (1700g and about £280) feel a bit flexy sometimes and I'm about 14 stone, I'm running them with 620g tyres tubeless (not in my sig pic) but this makes them even more squirmy and awkward under weight.

Looks like quite a sensible build anyway!

allthegearnoidea

i was running marz. bomber mx comp air's! i bought them back in 04 when i assumed as they were air ones they'd be light!!! haha! ooops! but that said, they have been absolutely faultless!

14st, i used to be that haha! 15.8 at the mo! trouble is i cant seem to get much below 15 at the mo! so thats the next plan! loose the weight of me haha! thats defo the cheapest option too! that way, when i fall off i wont have quite the bouncing bomb effect hahah!

really want to go out and have a crack aorund the woods now but am trying to save my energy for tomorow hahah! i htink one of the guys is coming possibly with his 'dosco bike' haha! he has a set of the 1350gr. cycle king/alex scandium rimmed wheels and lots of other light bits on his commy bouncer! bloody good rider mind but can see who has the lightest hahah! not that there's any comp for most blingy bike or lightest lol!

bluechair84

You'd need a heavier bike to loose more weight I think! That looks like a little whipet! Stick on some Boxxers, halo rims, DH tyres, wrap yourself in cling film and those pounds will fall right off - then get that weight off the bike and you'll be an unstoppable force of speed.
Can't belive that all in cost though... :shock:




I'd best post qualify what I just said.... Don't put boxxers on :roll:

toasty

Losing weight is no fun, want to slim myself down a bit at the moment. Lost just under a stone so far from around xmas, mainly via diet and steady exercise so far. I'm only aiming for about 13 stone but I'm 6'6" at the minute and a bit skinny already.

Such a fine line between not having enough food and having a crap ride because of it and chowing down far too much and losing no weight. I'd have gone out today, the missus is out today without me for the first time, err, in years. I knackered my arm a week or so ago and I'm trying to let it heal

allthegearnoidea

i'd be chufed to bits to be your weight toasty! i always used to be high 13- low 14st since i was 14! (same height and build since then just with a belly now haha!)
my only down side is i have m.e. and exercise is limited to once maybe twice a week (also hence the tight budget!) just cant seem to loose it much below high 14's,
so the light bike kinda helps balance it out! hahah!

bluechair, i started out on a supermarket y frame bouncer! so your options would have been a dream to that lol! i decided i wasnt keen on heavy bokes from that! trying to lift it over a style on the paths after a ride was too much hahaha!

Zaskar20

Love the bike.


User names even better

allthegearnoidea

sadly with nearly 18 months of riding with the cornwall group the name is prolly more apt now then it ever was hahahaha!

Dazzza

Nice bike tim.