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T-Minus 24 hours

by Matt Smith

August 06, 2011 - Filed under: Company

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In about 24 hours, Chris will be dropping by my place with his lovely and talented assistant, Tulu, to build the bike. Well, that is a bit of an exaggeration, Tulu isn't lovely and not too talented regarding the mechanics of a bike. Tulu, who is an old university friend of Chris, is a former varsity football player who was somehow brainwashed into cycling by Chris. One thing is for sure, we know the bikes are well built as Tulu is a pretty big boy; not a line man, more like a tight end.

I weighed all the parts yesterday to get a rough idea of bike weight. You have to remember that these weights are not trimmed weights like the fork or cables. Also, the cables here are the stock SRAM cables and not the Power Cordz.

Component	Make	Weight w/ tires	Weight w/o tires
Frame (includes bearings, derailleur hanger, bottle cage bolts, seat post clamp, raw frame weight is 682 g)	Cervélo R5ca	779	779
Fork	Cervélo	363	363
Head set	Cane Creek	36	36
Handle bar	Schmolke	147	147
Bar plugs	Veloflyte	2	2
Crank	FSA K-Force Light	420	420
Brakes	THM Fibula	137	137
Chain Rings	Carbon Ti	102	102
Chain ring bolts	Carbon Ti	9	9
Front derailleur	SRAM Red	69	69
Rear derailleur	SRAM Red	146	146
Seat post	Schmolke	79	79
Saddle	AX Lightness	66	66
Pedals	Speedplay	167	167
Cassette	KCNC	115	115
Shifters w/cables	SRAM Red	324	324
Cable housing	SRAM Red	187	187
Cable	SRAM Red	38	38
Bar tape	3T	40	40
Risers	Extralite Delrin	7	7
Chain	KCNC	257	257
Stem	Extralite	90	90
Bottle cages	New Ultimate	26	26
Cables	Power Cordz
Front rim	Reynolds 32UL T	614	439
Rear rim	Reynolds 32UL T	742	567

		4962 g	4612 g
		10.94 lb	10.17 lb

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Jon MacKinnon says:

August 07, 2011

Looking forward to seeing the full bike, and finding out the weight once things have got grease etc. on them. When I used to weigh every component building up my bikes I found the spreadsheet figure and the final figure always had a slight difference, very frustrating.