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I know mate - I thought I had a pretty light setup on my CAAD, apart from the wheels, and it still weighs in at 8.4kg!!!
You can feel the flex and sogginess of the axiums under duress, and I should probably check my fork and chainstays after a rather spicy ride last Saturday and upping my tyre size to 30c, reducing clearance to mm rather than CM.
I would upgrade the wheels, but the chasms of difference in price, compared to small increments in performance and weight are counter-intuitive to the purpose of the CAAD in my stable. Were it my best bike, I'd definitely be switching out the wheels - well - I would have never bought Aksiums in the first place!
Dick
dancing james
I disagree. At 95KG they have flexed so badly that they have rubbed the paint off both sides of my chain stays... And the rim weld split and folded inwards. Ed has told me to send them back under warranty but Evans want to see them on the bike... I've switched everything over so i think i'll end up just using them on the trainer with thin tyres.
And @Dick my bike is 8.8KG according to my bathroom scales. Meaty! Not sure where the weight is though so that could be very wrong.