My RB-1 is ~18lbs with alloy wheels, a record groupset, and potenza (boat anchor) crank
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Did Swift completely abandon custom colors?
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TBH, I think that a weight target for a steel frame is ultimately a recipe for frustration, particularly when sub-1000g carbon frames are cheap and plentiful.
Like find a carbon frameset with BSA threaded bb interface and a non-stupid headset/steerer, pay someone to sand and repaint it, and blammo you’ve got a 17lb bike even with totally boring parts.
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Except all SRAM’s other bb30 road cranks have wider spindles. Only Red has had the truly “bb30 only” width. Force and Rival may as well be 386 cranks.
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I think my kiddo’s SuperSix built up to 17 lbs, without any gram counting. It was a 48 cm frame, though.
I guess my 56 cm Soma Smoothie was 22 lbs with Deep Vs. I bet with a lighter wheelset it could have been around 20 lbs.
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Ritchey Road Logic with a carbon fork will do it, too. Steel fork is the thing pushing mine over 20#.
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just buy a canyon endurace
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This conversation is making me doubt that I ever owned a sub 20 pound bike. And that’s sad.
Now I gotta find some old 10 speed Forces!
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I knew amy would chime in: she’s got the stages cycling compatibility matrix and I’m just going off memory.
I think the later ones are 3-piece as well. Right @amy ?
No. They have a custom option on their site for a subset of bags.
Edit: looks like that option is gone. 
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it cracks me up that I was like “i’m gonna try an external bb, what could go wrong” and managed to buy the single least compatible crank possible
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except that may be the sole force one that is short spindle. unsure. the spindle is permanently attached to the drive side on that one, so we never offered a PM solution, so i don’t know the length.
just find a damn gxp crank!
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Shimano does too*… Just drill a hole in the plastic cap on the NDS. Some have the hole already.
*just pick any crank with a hole in the DS
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Do this, you have a normal threaded BB, no need to jam a huge spindle in there with all the attendant sacrifices.
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please do not buy yet another BB30 crank to only discover yet again that it does not work with an external-bearing BB in a threaded BB shell
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Everything
Seriously though gxp or Shimano.
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Rim or disc?
Not too expensive to do it on a rim brake bike.
This bike of mine has seen a number of component iterations but always been <19lbs with a steel fork. The initial build was 18.5 I think and it was full 6800.
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This only happens in winter; wait til spring
Happened to me today. Happens every winter
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