Cannondale Aficionados / Owners

Yes, that's what I had on my Dalsnibba

SiSL2? Presume the Si works the same way as they're meant to be all backward compatible? So I lose the spider and chainrings and then install the P2M with some specific loctite? That about it? Looks like I'll be ordering a crankset and P2M tonight.

Not quite, but Campag ergos definitely fit my stubby fingers better than ridiculously long shimano stis. I hate the hand action of having a movable brake lever too: index up, thumb down, brake lever just sits and does what you want it to do when you want to do it=much better.

I've never been able to get my head around how you're meant to shift down when you're in the drops though......

It's not the worst, although I kind of want a paint job like yours but black base colour and lime green/white splatter and a black thomson x2 -10 130 stem and some ritchey neoclassic bars. Could look awesome, could look terrible.

with these

Ashamedly, this is not a problem I have ever encountered nor is it likely it'll trouble me in future.

That said, it doesn't seem to bother any of the pros so I'm not sure it's insurmountable.

you've gotta have gurt big thumbs to ride campag.

Eww

finally got around to weighing my ss evo hm, with an entirely scientific method of standing on scales, weighing myself, then holding the bike and weighing again.

Sitting around 7.6kg atm, which isn't bad. How can I shave a bit more off it?

Supersix Evo Hi mod frame
Zonda wheels (~1500g)
Conti Gp4000ii tyres
conti race tubes
DA9000 chainset
ultegra 6700 group
Ultegra cassette and chain
praxis BB
Spesh Romin carbon railed saddle
Cannondale c2 carbon post (suspect this could be switched out for weight gainz... or losses even)
Ritchey alu WCS streem II bars (likewise, although I don't want carbon bars or stem)
Deda elementi zero100 stem
105 pedals (these could also be switched but unsure what sort of £/kg savings I could make here)

chinese carbon cages

This isn't hugely important as a 6ft 5 90kg rider I'm never going to be super fast up hills. Largely for my own vanity.

That said, i don't think losing too much more fat is viable. I don't really have much to spare on me at the moment.

Thoughts?

Latex tubes, kalloy stem, far east seatpost (although 90kg) are cheap fixes. I wouldn't bother beyond that tbh.

Wheels, pricey in comparison but thats where you will lose most weight. Tubs obv. OR Extealite hubs on Kinlin XR200 or American classic ACRD 2218 (wide, tubeless).

Are you riding 53/39 with 11-32? If so 50/34 12-25 would save weight.

@amey but 53/39 makes you look hench, which is much more important than having a light bike or gears that suit your needs ;-)

Nobody with a 32t cassette will ever look hench.

52/36 with 11/28

I experimented with latex once but both tubes exploded after sitting in my (unridden) bike for 2 hours.

Will look into stem and seatpost, though I think I will buy a legit light seatpost (budget allowing) as a catastrophic failure of seatpost is really low of my list of things I want to risk to save money.

You're not supposed to experiment with them...

Pedalling to the top of a hill looks much better than having to walk up due to inappropriate gear choice.

Saddle, seatpost, bars and stem swaps could probably trim a good 300g. Latex tubes another 100g. Skewers could be another 80g.
I got my SS HM down to 6.9kg with a very similar parts list (but Di2) without spending very much at all

thought we weren't doing phrasing anymore...

@TooTallTim just how tall (heavy?) are you?

My worry with things like special skewers is that they become more fragile.

If you're close to 90kg I'd be keen to hear what stuff you're using.

Saddle is around 165g - that is fairly light already, no?

Haven't weighed other parts but suspect the cannondale post is a bit portly for sure.

edit: just realised I had my turbo trainer QR in when I weighed it. That must be fairly heavy, comparatively.

72kg, roughly. I've had no problems with the Lifeline carbon-ti skewers, but if you're gonna dabble in weenyism then there's a certain trade-off

Little bits of weight add up, my saddle is a stripped carbon SLR which is 110g so that's a fair whack less than a Romin. Seatpost is a USE Alien carbon (170g). Both together weigh as much as just the Arione I used before

You could potentially lose another 100g with a SRAM Red cassette, at the expense of some shifting smoothness and, well, lots of money...

looks at SRAM cassette prices

Christ!

I'll probably get those skewers you mentioned, and have a look for a new seatpost and stem that don't offend my eye. Not sure about a new saddle as it took me long enough to find one that I found comfortable.

Probably eventually upgrade my brakes to DA, even though the weight savings will be negligible. Probably have @amey to thank for that...

Much point in getting anything other than 105 pedals, weight wise?

If I can get down to 7kg ish, I'd be pretty happy. That's a fairly arbitrary figure I had my head when I started with this frameset.

I've got a set of Planet X CNC brakes that'd save you a good 130g, so long as you're not fussed about stopping in a hurry.

Like I say, trade-offs.

Big chainrings means big balls, right?

SiSL2? Presume the Si works the same way as they're meant to be all backward compatible? So I lose the spider and chainrings and then install the P2M with some specific loctite? That about it? Looks like I'll be ordering a crankset and P2M tonight.

Yep, put the crank in a vice (avec une rag de non-scratch), spin the lock-ring off, remove spider-rings, list on eBay, drop P2M on, loctite, torque to 40Nm*, boom.

*I'd need to look this up, but I've got a tenner on 40Nm being right.