The mint Crux

After a little detour, the hubs are finally in. This should make for a wheelset at 1390gr without tape and skewers.

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Loving the green on green, and the weenie-ism, light bikes are fun. Which hubs are these?

These are Carbon Ti X-hub Road SP. From what I've read, they should be quite durable, well thought out and manufactured in Italy. We'll see :)

Laced up the wheels today. So far very happy about the choice of components and how it looks. Taking them to the lbs on Tuesday to have them tensioned properly before they go on the bike.

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I finished building the wheels today and just got them on the bike. Ended up doing it myself. With proper tools it was no big deal, I'm just really really slow at building wheels. New pedals, seatpost and saddle is also on. Still have small some changes to do, but I gotta say it feels good to have the Crux up again.

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Well the hubs aren't purple enough, but otherwise it's a total winner.

The looks sweet. Really good call with green hubs

Like this one!

Cheers guys. Glad I went for the green.

Very nice!

beauty

Now we're talking value! Swapped out the nice, but heavy DA skewers for some ebay ones. Ti axle, 7075 levers and brass washers. Quality seems great and they cost me £7 including shipping. That's 11gr per £ 🤓 I also ordered some black ones that hasn't arrived yet, but sort of feeling the 420 look too.

Bike is currently around 7.7kg including XTR pedals and bottle cages. Still have to fit the direct mount ring, find some other bars and change the worn out 38mm tires for some 35s.

Weather in Norway is amazing these days. Hasn't rained for weeks and it's 25 degrees every day. Had a nice 3.5hr gravel ride yesterday. Bike feels amazing.

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Skewer /hub combo is cool

Severely tarty. I like it.

Although they look really nice, I really want to try to convince you to go back to the Shimano skewers.. Those cheap external cam skewers have a pretty awful tendency to come loose while sprinting or climbing.

I landed on my rear derailleur once thanks to those things.

^ Had the same issues. They look cool and weigh nothing but they don't function as well.

Been beating crux for over a month now

Thanks for the heads-up.

So fire. A forum favourite for me

Cheers. Long one to my hometown on it today. Stuck on the old seatpost and saddle to stay safe.

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Looks mint

Great project, i'm loving the functional and aesthetic development. As someone looking for a more versatile road bike i'm interested to know if you've chucked on some road tyres and done many road miles on it? Looks like it would be equally capable on or off road. Also do you feel the Avid's are a step down in performance in comparison to discs?

Absolute mint flavoured porn, great thread

I did have 25c and deep wheels on it for a club race at a time when I didn't have a road bike. It worked well, but that's about it. But I've many, many road miles on it with 35c and 38c. If I was to have only one bike it would probably be this one.

I've always been a fan of the Shorty Ultimates. Compared to a good disc brake setup, they're cheaper, lighter and look good. Stopping power is good – but of course nowhere near a good hydro disc setup. Now that you got flat mount, nice hydro hoods (at least with Dura-Ace) and the ability to run carbon wheels without the hassle of rim-braking, I'd probably go disc if I had enough money to splash. But I do love the #cantilyf

Thanks, looking for possible donor options to switch frames and keep most my components but i suspect buying a complete disc bike would be the better option.