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dancing james
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!