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Normally, that's what I think too.... but I don't know whether it's material/geometry/something else, but it's true. At first you think 'fucking heavy' then it progresses to 'normal', then it goes to the momentum thing after three or four hours..... it weighs a gnats cock under 29lbs in a 58 set up tubeless.
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I had a Croix de Fer before this, it was 12kg, which for me is too fucking heavy. I don't really agree with the 'you'll stop noticing the weight' thing. You won't up hills or in the nimbleness (for want of a better word) of the bike. But I don't like heavy bikes.
I did 40 miles on the Orro on Sunday that was nearly all off road but had a stretch of Essex B roads about half way to join up two off road parts. Despite having knobbly tyres on the Orro still felt fast, I literally looked down and realised I was easily doing 25+ mph. CdF was not like that and that's what I wanted, something that would be good off road but also fast on it.