The AlOpen UpDown (another attempt at wasting money on Dickpreciation?)

Size M - Listing is HERE

Cheers.

Haha - the thrill is in the build!!

Ha! I knew it.
Currently taking a break from cycling so not buying any bike bits. Cheers tho and glws.

Actually decided I’m going to keep it!

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That looks pretty mean

But Enve

It’s bouncy fun fun

Gnarly

But cowchipper super shallow drop and nice wide flair?

You've changed man

My sensibilities afford a more consistent approach to bike, rather than spaffing my load at the latest shiny thing

It's turned out really nice @Dick.

It’s rad to ride aswell - 40 x 11-40 is perfect for just spinning around and well geared enough for steep uphill.

I may embark on a weight shedding programme soon, although the practicalities of this build start to evaporate with the cost of losing those grams.

As a base, the frame (1300g) and fork (600g) is only just heavier than the frame of an NS RAG+ (1800g) on its own, and not that portly, so I wonder where the weight saving can be made.

Any thoughts on weight saving would be appreciated...

Any thoughts on weight saving would be appreciated...

That's looking fast. So much regret missing one of these frames on eBay.
You can lose some weight on the stem if that's a Thomson. Can't see that bike weighting much anyways

It weighs just under 9kg

Considering my CAAD12 weighs 6.7, that sounds like a big number to me, however, it certainly doesn’t feel like 9kg and I can easily hold 35kph on the flat, so it’s not slow.

Drivetrain is super smooth which also helps.

Biggest improvement: 0deg Stem & 44cm bars with such a wide flare - cruising in the drops on this is amazing!