Making my bike lighter? Advice?

I love my Giant TCR frame and I have decided to keep it and lighten the bike BUT.....using parts that will make for a better, smoother and more reliable ride. I have set aside a sum to buy lighter wheels and a few other bits where afforadable.
I have found carbon pulleys and a ceramic BB deal at a site I have heard of before when RCUK did a review. Does anyone know of www.ckceramicsuk.co.uk? The lightweight ceramic pulleys are only £ 17.50 if bought with a bottom bracket. As the two only weigh a 'claimed' 103gr for less than £ 80 I wanted to know if anyone could shed light on the products????
My present BB and pulleys weigh 143gr.
Wheel wise I was looking at Mavic SL's as they look like a tough pair of wheels and will save me over 500gr on the pair I have now. Good choice?
Cheers
Rob
I have found carbon pulleys and a ceramic BB deal at a site I have heard of before when RCUK did a review. Does anyone know of www.ckceramicsuk.co.uk? The lightweight ceramic pulleys are only £ 17.50 if bought with a bottom bracket. As the two only weigh a 'claimed' 103gr for less than £ 80 I wanted to know if anyone could shed light on the products????
My present BB and pulleys weigh 143gr.
Wheel wise I was looking at Mavic SL's as they look like a tough pair of wheels and will save me over 500gr on the pair I have now. Good choice?
Cheers
Rob
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When I asked the same question a couple of weeks back the advice was start with the tyres, then wheels, much after that basically replace it (Trek 1.1) in favour of a higher end machine.
Also unless I'm being dim there's no information whatsoever about the company on that website. I wouldn't order anything from them on that basis.
That'd shed a good 60-200g
Spend as much as you like on weight-weenie parts, but it won't make as much difference, regardless of what the mareting blurb tells you.
Immodium works the other way round.
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Look into the Pantani Popcorn diet for how to do it
http://www.velominati.com/blog/the-rules/
Amen
Plus saving hundreds of £'s on not buying lighter bike parts.
Saying that my new frame comes in at 990grams and its completely awesome :P
He'll have to buy several different kinds of digital scales for a start. Then his bike will spend more time in pieces being weighed than it does being ridden.
Crying shame.
You can't actually ride your bike if you go the WeightWeenies route - it'll become too fragile and any dirt that gets onto the bike will have a detrimental effect on performance.
I must be carrying at least 5g of dirt on my fixie currently - no wonder I've been struggling recently.
But 100% agree with the suggestions on start with tyres/tubes - cheapest upgrade possible and you'll actually feel the difference straight away. £80 should get you some decent light tyres and tubes.
Rather than obsessivly buying bits to make the bike lighter, you're also best served to spend money on a bike fitting first - that'll make you more efficient and comfortable on the bike for instant performance increase!
so it does.... :oops:
It's the same area though
Just thought he might be happier there where people accept this irrational behaviour rather than berating it, but maybe I lost hope on him too fast...
scrape the surface and most on here replying naysay, probably own something sub 7kg... ho hum... I race summat touching 10kg and yes, I can feel the bloody difference... (having a bit of tiff with my carbon bike at mo)
I wouldn't be contemplating spending £80 to save 40 grams when I still have another 3 kg I could lose!
"Don't ride upgrades - ride up grades" Eddy Merckx.
Seems to make some sense
Well worth it if you ask me, but just my point of view.
Do they still make Topic bars?
I think you're right.
The tyre advice...right on the button. Thanks
The wc advice is sadly low humour but there you go.
Weight loss is taken on board too as I am around 12% and could get to single figs if I try harder. I don't race but like to be efficient on the bike.
Thanks for the pointers
+1
I've gone from a 80kg tubby to a fairly slim 68kg and I've noticed one hell of a difference without changing anything on my bikes.
This time next year I should be under 65kg (still fat on waist and titty area to get rid off) and I still wont have changed anything on my standard bikes!
What I laugh at is the riders who buy the very lightest bikes and then put 2 full (and heavy) bottles of water/energy drinks for a 40 mile ride! Unless it's hot and sunny I don't even carry water for the 40 miles training loops I do.
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