Dolan Seta - From Lightweight to Carbon Slave

Have you considered changing the drive train?

haha

set-up for 2013. new 8bar krzberg fork and a new fizik antares saddle. still love this bike! hopefully the snow will melt down next week.

How do you like your ritchey pedals?

Would you ride them brakeless?

similar to the spuds. as i'm not riding brakeless anymore i can't give you any advice.

first fixed ride since autumn last year. still a great bike, but also still more a wall hanger.

similar to the spuds. as i'm not riding brakeless anymore i can't give you any advice.

Are they Ritchey COMP V4s?

Are they Ritchey COMP V4s?

Ritchey Pro Paradigm

decided against the idea of rebuilding it for fixed time trialing.

things i will buy within the next few days:

• alpina track fork (drilling afterwards)
  
• wheelset with dura ace 7600 hubs
  
  

i'm not sure if i will change to risers too.

new wheelset is on the way:
black 36h mavic open pro with dura ace 7600 double fixed. wanted an all black rim, but the price for the set was too great to resist.

can't decide which fork i will buy, alpina track (have to drill it be my own and import of from dolan) or leader i05tr (a bit more money but available in germany and already drilled, thinner blades at the dropouts). any ideas or advice?

the green seta with the hed3 is fuckin sweet !

how heavy is your bike now eingang ?

u use a carbon bike but u put an alu/carbon fork on it......full carbon would save so much.

look zed 2 is half the weight of the omnium (ok its around a 1000 bucks :)

nice bike still.....but i would NEVER ever put a break on it!!

( but your from berlin or somewhere?? i heard german cops are stressy with that, but here i got away with tellin its a "racebike" and its a trainingsride a few times...if not u just ride away quick, i mean what do you got a fast bike for ;)

the ritchey are also heavy and like spd.....get look carbon quartz(260g/pair !?), they are only around a 100....titan/carbon is 40g lighter but more pricey.......they are like time, wich are also super nice (the carbon/titan) but much cheaper and only the 250+ ones are light. i ride the look breakless and i love them :)

new wheelset is on the way:
black 36h mavic open pro with dura ace 7600 double fixed. wanted an all black rim, but the price for the set was too great to resist.

can't decide which fork i will buy, alpina track (have to drill it be my own and import of from dolan) or leader i05tr (a bit more money but available in germany and already drilled, thinner blades at the dropouts). any ideas or advice?

I'd go for the leader fork just because you wouldn't have to wait as long for it.
Have you abandoned the weight weenie idea?
I see a quite heavy wheelset and aluminium crowned forks but also appreciate you're a big guy and probably don't wanna chance any mad light carbon.

Fabjan Sutter
Brakes are compulsory in Berlin and not worth the fine/bike confiscation just to feel cool and have a slightly cleaner looking bike.

If running a front brake my weight weenie part choices from here would be Chinese 20mm tub rims on mack low flange rear track hubs and mack front super light road hub with some light spokes, that'd be just a smidgen over 1kg for the wheelset, then a Chinese full carbon fork around 350g, speedplay pedals light as fuck. Also rotor track cranks are damn light, even though Eingang mentioned he's not going 3/32 I'd do this if I had a brake and drop several hundred grams there too.

as the title of the thread and some posts on the last pages are already mentioned, the lightwight phase is over. this bike was 6.5kg with the ellipse wheelset so i could go down to 6 if i would. and yes i'm from germany (munich, not berlin) and in some cities the police is looking for bikes without brakes (you have to pay fees and some bikes were confiscated!). i head 2 major situations with the police (they were trying to catch me with their cars!) back at the end in 2011 so i stopped riding brakeless afterwards.

since i bought my road bike last year the fixed touring phase is also over and so i used the seta less than expected last year. therefore i'm currently rebuilding the bike into a city bike without looking for weightweenie parts.

however, i'm a heavy (93kg) and tall (6.3ft) guy.

Mine might be around 6kg pretty soon with no real focus on WW, it got up to a massive 8.4 a month or two back.
Since then I've dropped around 400g from the cockpit and ditched the brake.
Dropped 300 odd in cranks chainring and BB.
Dropped a fair bit on wheels but still I know however I suspect around 650g and then I'll try out some lighter tyres too.

ja in münchen ists nicht so cool mit polizei ;)

ah, yeah, speedplay i totally forgot....are they even lighter than the 174g/pair eggbeater titan?

i think the rotor is about the same as the omnium ?! couldnt find a weight and dont know anyone who rides one, the are also 500bucks without chainring :(

3t fullcarbon fork is 280g, a friend bought some chinafork thats under 300g (i have no idea where he got it from) for quite cheap

und sorry, hab die letzten seiten nicht gelesen, 6kg ist ja schon recht ordentlich, ich wieg aber "ein bisschen" weniger als du mit deinen 93 also hoff ich schon mal unter 6 zu kommen (5,7 wenn ich richtig gerechnet hab)
und strafen und so machen sie hier eh auch, aber wegnehemn dürfen sies nicht :)

Speedplay zero Ti are 164g pair.
Chinese fake 3T funds are around 300g once the steerer is cut.
I have rotors, they weight about 650g without chainring and about 750g with 48t chainring compared to omniums 875 without chainring quoted weights are what mine came out as, can't remember the weight with stock 48 ring but I think it's around 1kg.

potatoshopped both forks. leader would suit the rear stays better, alpina suits better to the head tube.

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if you get the leader fork, remove the decal

definitely

I much prefer the Alpina to be honest, Leader is a bit ugly.

What about a planet x track fork, would that work?

don't like the look of them, blades are too thick

haha do I see risers there?

yes, will change to risers (only potatoshopped on the pictures above)

Are there any other straight blade forks you can get? Something like the colnago flash fork would be nice...