calling all weight weenies, advice on lightening needed

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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    As I thought, either no damper, or no oil in there! Mad!
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  • meesterbond
    meesterbond Posts: 1,240
    That really is the true embodyment of a weight weenie... creating a completely unusable bike at vast expense and significant effort just because he can...

    The new Scale frame would knock another 100+g off that too.

    Utter madness.
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    It's when the Dremmel comes out you know they are insane
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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    There's a guy in the motorcycle world named Shervin who mods his motorcycle retarded and videos everything. Cutting huge holes in the frame to make it so he "is faster driver" as he says. People amaze me sometimes.
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  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    Some people do do a good job with the Dremel it has to be said!

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    Heavily tuned Red rear mech on Fairwheel's 6lb road bike!
    As I thought, either no damper, or no oil in there! Mad!

    To be fair, I've taken the compression damper out of my SIDs, never bothered to have to cable on the lockout, so it wasn't doing anything, just 90g of dead weight! Doesn't affect the rebound.
  • weescott
    weescott Posts: 453
    njee20 wrote:
    The shifting ergonomics are different though, if the aim is to make the bike light and he likes how Shimano shifters work, and not how SRAM ones work it's a waste of money. Grip Shift would be the lightest solution.

    On cassettes, an SLX is 282g, an XT is 256g, assuming his cassettes not worn out that's another waste of money, when spending the same amount could save him 300g on tyres! Theres no real durability difference either, and I'd even question the shift quality differences, they've all got roughly the same ramps. And I don't believe you can tell a real world difference in acceleration when you fit an XT cassette! I can't with an XX one over XT or XTR!

    I'd get SIDs every time myself, particularly if buying second hand, too many Foxes need stantions at great expense!

    I went from Deore shifters to Sram attack and liked the ergonomics. Personal choice though I'll give you that. I went from a Deore cassette to an XT cassette and the difference was massive. Someone on here said that they felt the same way going from SLX to XT. Subjective? maybe. I agree that going XT to XTR then you don't notice as much of a difference. But thats where ever diminishing returns come in to play.

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