Custom Burls Ti fixed bro-pro

Sorry.

Yes.

It's now a bike and I've ridden it.

Plenty of fiddling about with angles yet to do and I think I will get a -17 deg stem to get it horizontal, the drop is pretty comfy as is. I still haven't found the allen key front skewer.

I decided a while ago to forget the <6kg weight target. I probably could have just about scraped it but the bike would have ended up compromised.

It's 6.45kg.

Surely you can drop 450g for the track setup by getting light drops with less tape, ditching the brake and having a smaller cog.

Slippery slope Indra, quit while you're ahead.

Yeah 6kg in track guise should be doable.

The brake, cable and lever are c. 250g and there are two cogs so losing the 19 and lock ring is probs worth 100g, then the bottle cage. I've gone for road inner tubes, swapping those to Supersonics would save 100g+.

Really nice tire/rim combo.
Are those grey or black Archetypes?

Surely you can drop 450g for the track setup by getting light drops with less tape, ditching the brake and having a smaller cog.

I'd take off the brake, bottle cage, and chuck on a short light stem and some cutdown carbon risers.

Then take a photo with some scales, rebuild as is and ride it.

Looks good. Is it just the light that's making it look that purpley colour?

Just as an aside don't those old school aero seatposts weigh a ton? Switching to a light alu or carbon should be an easy weight saving.

Yes, they do, a fuck tonne. Better as a kosh than a weight weenie part.

Yip. 280g against 140g for the one in the pic at the top of the page (I think it's called a Wood-something?) but it's the same era Dura-Ace as the cranks and brake and I like matching things.

Similarly I could have run a 39x15 set up and saved another 60g or so, but I like big rings. Baby.

The frame is normal brushed Ti, it must just be dusky light making it look purple.

You could also loose a bit of weight by a titanium front skewer, slimmer seat-clamp

Or just have a fucking shit.

Why bother with further weight loss? 6.45kg is one fucking light bike, even if it will get a bit heavier with tri-bars (what do you plan to use?).

Just to prove what a hypocrite I am, is that weight with pedals? Oh, and bung the Supersonics in, just about the cheapest way to save 100g where it counts, I can't believe that everybody doesn't do this....

This bike is splendid!

The weight's going to be pretty significant on the big long climbs. Plenty of them up here in Cambridgeshire. Very mountainous area. Well known for it.

Does Ed believe in some form of sympathetic magic?

^^And some fairly severe hump-backed bridges.

^No, unsympathetic and powerful laxatives.

Why bother with further weight loss? 6.45kg is one fucking light bike, even if it will get a bit heavier with tri-bars (what do you plan to use?).

Just to prove what a hypocrite I am, is that weight with pedals? Oh, and bung the Supersonics in, just about the cheapest way to save 100g where it counts, I can't believe that everybody doesn't do this....

The weight does include the pedals, they're 208g worth of Ritchey Pro Micros and so far (40 miles...) they feel pretty good.

In that 40 miles I managed to puncture a supersonic tube. Maybe bad luck but I'm nervous of the feckers now.

I've not bought the tri bars yet. I worked out which ones to get on another thread but I've forgotten now and I can't remember which thread the discussion was in.

The weight's going to be pretty significant on the big long climbs. Plenty of them up here in Cambridgeshire. Very mountainous area. Well known for it.

I took in 3 huez-spec climbs in my 40 mile route out of Cambridge. Chapel Hill at Haslingfield is about 1:10 and took some grinding at 85GI. I reckon it would have been a piece of piss if I was carrying 450g less.

That's pretty impressive, Chapel Hill is not small feat.

It's a killer, isn't it. 36m elevation gain - one for the true heroes. Makes Mt Ely and Mt Littleport look like mere foothills.

It's the biggest shock of my life after 1300km, moreso after going through Yorkshire and Scotland.

It's like a wall, turn left after a lovely rolling countryside and bang, 36 metres of hill to get over to Barrington.

The Tour De Cambridgeshire awards KOM points for categorised drain covers.

If you're relying on inner tubes as puncture protection, despair will be your companion. See: 'Relative imperferability of proprietory very thin rubber things' by MDCC Tester (Sponsored by Anne Summers and Boots the Chemists).

Chapel Hill ... 85GI

Ouch. I know that hill well, used to do repeats on it several times a week.

Everything is relative. You wouldn't notice Chapel Hill if it were in the Peak District, but round here it feels sharp.

Not as epic as slowly turning your way up the 70-odd-metres of the Ascent de Great Chishill tho.

I still believe fenland headwinds are more challenging than hills. You can stand up and power over a hill, if you stand up into a fenland headwind you slow down.

If you're relying on inner tubes as puncture protection, despair will be your companion. See: 'Relative imperferability of proprietory very thin rubber things' by MDCC Tester (Sponsored by Anne Summers and Boots the Chemists).

But putting tyres over them would add another 400g.

v1.1 :

I was never very happy with the way the stem and bars looked so I've swapped the stem for a Cinelli Pista that I stripped the anodising off. It needs polishing but I like the way the angle is more-or-less the same at that of the TT.

The bars are now 20mm higher than my road drops so I'm 100% bro.

I also stripped and recovered the saddle in green to replace the tan. I'm not sure which I prefer now. :(

In other news I found the hex key skewer so the QR is gone and Veloflex Masters seem to be the least puncture- and skid-proof tyres ever so I'll be demoting them to best use only and getting some Paselas or something.

Just swung by to remind myself what tyres you used (got grey Archetypes on the way).

I like the update, but the seat post still niggles: £40 for Chi-Ti on eBay.

Much prefer the darker saddle and tape. Stem/TT angle is very easy on the eye.

Just swung by to remind myself what tyres you used (got grey Archetypes on the way).

I like the update, but the seat post still niggles: £40 for Chi-Ti on eBay.

Much prefer the darker saddle and tape. Stem/TT angle is very easy on the eye.

Thanks...

I'm looking at it now thinking a black chainset and post might be the answer.