Weight Weenies Thread

There are only five distributors listed on their website and they're few and far between... Taiwan would probably be the one that might suit me but none in Europe.

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Been running one on my gravel bike, no issues so far

Yes I was just looking at that this morning. Have you had a price from them? (Please PM if you would rather not discuss on the open forum!)

LFGSS Yasujiro group ride one day? ;)

Have you been looking at my browsing history? I saw that recently too. It looks great.

I’ll try not to overtorque it then.

This is my fear, when I sprint, I think I put more watts through the handlebars than through the pedals…

Similar to a rugby player on a wattbike.

Group buy for the Yasujiro Svelte?
Put me down for an unpainted 55cm :)

I'm heartened by the group enthusiasm 😅

LFGSS Yasujiro Group ride would be a wonder to behold!

I found a Bikeradar article suggesting the price would be in the region of $1600usd f&f and I found a used one for sale in Singapore for $1750sgd which is about €1200 so they don't seem to be crazy money albeit taxes and shipping not included...

Google skills are lacking and I can't find the UTS for the Tange tubing only typical dimensions .. "Internet anyalsis" based on the down tube spec I did find is that for a like for like frame the Tange frame will be more noodly than the Spirit frame. The dia of the tubing is smaller for a similar wall thickness. Looking at that pink showcase build above everything is WW .. EE brakes, Exogram cranks, I links cables etc so I'm wondering how much the components influence the built weight and what the actual frame weight is in comparison to a frame constructed in Spirit ?

DOWN TUBE -
Tange Ultimate Super lite : Round 28.6 mm - Thickness 0,6 - 0,3 - 0,6 mm - Length 620mm - Weight 205 g
Columbus Spirit : Round 38 mm - Thickness 0,5 - 0,38 - 0,5 mm - Length 635mm - Weight 220 g

Wow that’s really not bad. Might send them an email - will report back!

You may well be right but I would have thought that a company with as much knowledge and experience as Tange wouldn't make something with inferior ride quality just to chase grams.
Have to say I'm sorely tempted though

Perhaps most common misconception is that better steel is stiffer than something made out of steel gas pipe. Stiffness is measured by a material's 'Young's Modulus' and all steels are within pretty tight limits, Reynolds measure a figure of 207GPa for ALL their tubing regardless of quality. So what you get buying expensive tubing is a) ‘butting’ to lose weight and gain strength where required b) increased ultimate tensile strength which is the point where the material snaps and fails. A tubes shape and size impact the formulas required to calculate stiffness – hence Colnago and Columbus playing with the Gilco tubing. For a round tube the only dimensions considered in stiffness formulas are the Outer Diameter and Inner Diameter. So, to get a stiffer tube with a similar wall thickness, as the down tube numbers above, the outer diameter needs to increase … Why I come to my internet analysis above .. But, as a bike frame is a structure the way one tube interacts with another will also have an effect when ridden.

Holy crap, 5.42kg for a steel bike is pretty mental. Super curious about the frame weight. Gotta ding pretty easy, you'd think...

Oh yeah, those AX Lightness wheels are cheating a bit... Something less stratospheric would have you closer to 6kg, but still, holy crap.

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Extralite installed:

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Pfft, please take this seriously and get rid of those brake pad grub screws.

and leave the top cap and spacer in place? Oversights oversights...

It’s all a process.

I’ve got low stack headset cover, weenie steerer bung, weenie brake outers.

Will also have 44t garbaruk direct mount 1x chainring, ti speedplays, weenie seatpost, weenie saddle.

Got to be a couple of hundred grams of paint there.

This is the way

How's that weenie brake housing? Looks like ye olde traditional stuff.

Haven’t changed it yet.
Need to change the bars and trim the steerer first.

Friend of mine has just finished his weight weenie build.

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All that effort and doesn’t slam and chop steerer?!

Those valves seem unnecessarily long too