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I'd like the paintjob if the gradient was a lot bigger

Okay, that makes more sense...

Still a crazy price for a 7800 bike, especially in that mint nick.

Nearly ten years ago I paid AU$600 for such, in good condition, and it was a great price then. Last year I paid $1k for the same bike in excellent condition, and that was a pretty good price.

Probably not. But it might be cleverer than you think. Something something ischial tuberosities...

Or maybe he's copying his butt groove off an old saddle

All that talk of Y cables on the last page had me thinking nobody here is down with soldering irons and heatshrink.

The Shimano cable is incredibly tough, but you only need it to be like that outside the bike; you can just splice it to the inners of a USB cable (I plaited the two wires with fuzzy twine for silence). With E-tube, all the components are in parallel, so you can wire it however you like. Mind you, splicing those E-tube cables is a bit fiddly due to the amazing toughness of both layers of insulation.

Could probably fix it with V brake noodles

WTF? Back wheel built the wrong way round.

Rim brake, 10 speed, mechanical Red is HH as fuck.

Good to know. How about paired with a set of WH-RS80s, de-dished with a 7s cassette body and shaved ti/al billet cassette? Oh, and OSPWs jammed into the standard cage.

Depends how much attention went into ball choice and placement, no?

Maybe he's got a bum like a pair of tennis balls.

FUCK. OFF!

Judging from the background, that's $200 AUD, about £14 last I checked. And fair enough, you're in the sticks, which hammers asking prices, but still, that's crazy. Dude would've paid most of that for the tyres.

Look at this bike! RD and crankset look fucking mint. Get those levers working and that group would be worth at least $750. Then there's the deep carbon wheels, which you would be pretty damn stoked to land alone for $200.

And the frameset! Giant's, and my, first carbon! I had the CFR1 back in the day, which was incredibly light given the ally lugs (I seem to remember 900g, but the ally fork with steel steerer was like 2/3 of that again... Is that a 55? Mine was a 57.) The full carbon frame was a bit of a noodle though... The CFR3 here has ally seat tube and stays, doesn't it? Might be better. The other cool thing about these frames was the see-through paint, and yours seems to have fared as well as that pristine groupset.

I guess it could have been used a fair bit without becoming scuffed and scratched; the giveaway would be chainring wear and particularly wear on the nickel-plated ally FD cage.

It is a bit of a puzzle... The CFR3 would've come out with 5400 on it, so someone has built this up at considerable expense... I hope there was a compelling story to convince you it wasn't stolen.

Mine was.

Those hubs are mental. More info?

What could possibly go wrong

Spoke tying and soldering is a very old hangover from penny farthings, where it actually did some good. Those were long spokes.

The mind boggles

So very weird. V brakes!

Some folks might consider mechanical SRAM the best, despite the lever feel...

But it's Force, PMSL

Ghost bike, innit?

No need for a new wheel size, just start doing lo-pros again.

Holy shit. That is really special.

Completely unsurprised the guy wears Crocs

Yeah I know WW.

Lighter is better in most respects as long as it's not too light. Which is why my bike has a heavier stem on it than it used to have.

We've got some pretty good materials these days you know... To get to 6.1kg, I just needed Dura-Ace and tubulars; the only real weenie part is a billet cassette.

Mind you, this is on a 2006 frame, from before the Tainting. Now, $10000 bikes weigh 7.8kg and apparently that's fine with people, but those fiddly aero hybrids aren't for me.

Does anyone think you wouldn't notice 150g off a saddle? At some point it gets hard to notice, but combined with another such saving in the cockpit, you notice it.

Bikes that feel light are fun to ride. They don't have to be absolutely light, just light in the right places and decent enough in the rest.

My 6.1kg weapon with its 1080g wheelset feels like such a fucken beast. Always ride it hard.

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

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.

Minor FD rub in 1st gear can be considered a feature in the absence of a gear display; stops you imagining you have a lower gear than first and experiencing the misery of trying to shift to it...

Anyone on SRAM mechanical knows how much that can suck: forgot you were in first? Here, have second!

It's what, 100g or so? Not insignificant.

I'm certain you would notice the difference on a reasonably light bike whether it's mounted in the seatpost or the bottom of the seat tube; with the battery low the bike would feel lighter when you stand on it and throw it from side to side.

That's why I like unpadded seats.