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A pair of Exustar carbon peddles and it's finished!
A very pleasing 7.74kg at the official weigh in , that's a tad over 17 pounds , now if this was weightwankies , I'd sling in a carbon seatpost to make it a 16 pound bike. Anyway the important weight , the bits you actually have to push round , revolving weight, are purposely very light.
Gave it a quick test ride , and it feels really very, very special (and I test ride a lot of bikes), a more grueling test is immanent , good or bad, I will report back.
Now you may remember , way back at the dawn of time when I started this project , the idea was to build my dream bike , a serious bit of kit , for under £1500 , well I'm happy to say mission accomplished , with enough over to take the Mrs out for dinner , which is only fair as she took most of the photo's (the good ones , not the dodgy iphone one's!).
For what it's worth , I couldn't be happier , it looks even more stunning in the flesh than the picture's , genuinely stoked with the way it's turned out , can't wait to do it justice.