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I wouldn't worry about the weight of whichever rear end you go for, after half a lap it's gonna have a tonne of clag to slow you down anyway. Unless you live somewhere dry n dusty?
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Cross isn't the place for weight weenies.
If you're doing rim brakes, I'd urge you to go with track ends and commit to this being a SS race bike. Sliders and EBBS are overly complex for rim brake cross bikes and just provide more opportunity for mechanical failure. Alternatively; commit to it being a geared frame with vertical dropouts and build an ENO wheel for running SS.
Also put a set of water bottle bosses on it and be done with it; otherwise you'll regret pigeonholing yourself when the day inevitably comes that you want to take your beloved race bike on a longer ride and you're stuck with camel pack or a bottle in your jersey pocket.
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It'll be built as an out and out race bike. No mounts, no bottles bosses and cantilevers.
I'm leaning towards sliding dropouts. It'll give me the ability to switch to 1x10 with a change of slider too. How much extra should I expect a frame to weigh, in total, over track ends?