7 pound road bike

Fugly.
Bill "not at all envious" S.

You'll note I wasn't drooling I did note one interesting item in the
build list. Pneumatic tubing in place of cable housing. I've worked
with a bunch of that stuff and never thought of using it in place of
cable housing. I thought that was clever.

Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

On Mar 9, 11:53 pm, (Michael Baldwin) wrote:
Fugly.
Bill "not at all envious" S.

You'll note I wasn't drooling I did note one interesting item in the
build list. Pneumatic tubing in place of cable housing. I've worked
with a bunch of that stuff and never thought of using it in place of
cable housing. I thought that was clever.

Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

It may be clever, but it has to wear out awfully fast.

While this is an interesting design study, the use of an 11-16
cassette implies that this guy isn't riding up anything nearly steep
enough to warrant shaving the axle end caps to save weight.

On Mar 10, 6:00 am, wrote:
On Mar 9, 11:53 pm, (Michael Baldwin) wrote:

Fugly.
Bill "not at all envious" S.

You'll note I wasn't drooling I did note one interesting item in the
build list. Pneumatic tubing in place of cable housing. I've worked
with a bunch of that stuff and never thought of using it in place of
cable housing. I thought that was clever.

Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

It may be clever, but it has to wear out awfully fast.

While this is an interesting design study, the use of an 11-16
cassette implies that this guy isn't riding up anything nearly steep
enough to warrant shaving the axle end caps to save weight.

His lowest gears are a 36-16. He weighs only 150. When I weighed 160
and was younger, I could ride some seriously steep stuff on a 42-21,
on a 22lbs bike with water bottles, tools and everything else. And I
wasn't anything but average. This guy weighs 150 and with tools and
bottles his bike weighs less than 10 pounds. So, if he is a reasonably
good climber, he can probably get up some fairly steep stuff on that
bike.

I personally don't give a crap about weight. My bike still weighs 22
lbs plus bottles and tools, and I am at 195 or so. My bike gets made
fun of a lot. There is a LBS owner friend of mine who was checking out
my bike and figured out that, literally, none of the components on my
bike match. Thing is that this was not done intentionally. I put this
bike together from stuff that I found in my box of old components and
stuff that I bought at bikes.marketplace. The LBS owner likes to
tease me about my bike.

On Mar 10, 8:59 am, " wrote:
On Mar 10, 6:00 am, wrote:



On Mar 9, 11:53 pm, (Michael Baldwin) wrote:

Fugly.
Bill "not at all envious" S.

You'll note I wasn't drooling I did note one interesting item in the
build list. Pneumatic tubing in place of cable housing. I've worked
with a bunch of that stuff and never thought of using it in place of
cable housing. I thought that was clever.

Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

It may be clever, but it has to wear out awfully fast.

While this is an interesting design study, the use of an 11-16
cassette implies that this guy isn't riding up anything nearly steep
enough to warrant shaving the axle end caps to save weight.

His lowest gears are a 36-16. He weighs only 150. When I weighed 160
and was younger, I could ride some seriously steep stuff on a 42-21,
on a 22lbs bike with water bottles, tools and everything else. And I
wasn't anything but average. This guy weighs 150 and with tools and
bottles his bike weighs less than 10 pounds. So, if he is a reasonably
good climber, he can probably get up some fairly steep stuff on that
bike.

I personally don't give a crap about weight. My bike still weighs 22
lbs plus bottles and tools, and I am at 195 or so. My bike gets made
fun of a lot. There is a LBS owner friend of mine who was checking out
my bike and figured out that, literally, none of the components on my
bike match. Thing is that this was not done intentionally. I put this
bike together from stuff that I found in my box of old components and
stuff that I bought at bikes.marketplace. The LBS owner likes to
tease me about my bike.

Maybe seriously steep, but not significantly long. My bike and I
weigh a little under 170 (just over 20 for the bike), and I wouldn't
even think about racing up any of the big climbs in New England taller
than a 34-26. I may be pack fill, but I know for a fact the guys
passing me aren't geared too much bigger. Even pro climbing
specialists, which on a regulation 15 pound bike are still lighter
than this guy, run 39-27 for any real hills.