Not too bad. I would have thought they’d be a bit heavier than that, even if the hose itself is light.
I was pleasantly surprised. It’s the hydraulic hose on the sram that is light.
The cable on the Equals is probably a bit heavy given that its the compressionless stuff. They come with compressionless and standard and say that some people chose standard because it can offer more feel, and its more amenable to bending for drop bar curves. The compressionless is fatter and I had a bit of a job routing it internally, not having the appropriate tools.
this is aluminum compressionless housing
it is extralight, slender in profile, and is easily moldable into curves
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I guess they aint gonna do a roadie one. Could you swap out inner with something workable?
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yes you just cut one of the factory inner cable ends for non-BMX use, and the U-brake straddle ballend fits great in a road lever
the factory housing ferrules are molded in and amazing
it comes with spare loose ferrules too for cuts, the seat inside is “volcano” shaped inside to spread the linear strands into a socket
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If you were building up a lugged “road” bike that fits up to 38mm 700c tires, what groupset?
It will have Velo Orange Grand Cru brakes, otherwise undecided. Ultegra R8000 is SO cheap right now, but also boring. I also think that crankset is bulky looking.
Sram Rival is the most cromulent of groups shartomo.
For the Doublecross commuter:
- Currently has 2x9 Shimano triggers with a Tiagra 110 5-bolt triple crank - a chainguard as outer, 46 middle, 30 inner.
- I have: an AliExpress 1x Ingrid copy I bought in wrong lengthway by mistake, 10s bar end shifters, AliExpress Paul thumbie copies.
Do I 1x it, or keep it 2x? Going to 10s thumbies either way. It’s a commuter, and I’ve vaguely considered throwing a dropper on for funsies.
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Keep it 2x. 46/30 is wonderful, basically a 1x until you need to drop it into the 30t for sustained climbing or something really steep. Pants guard is nice.
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Rim brake gets Campy
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easy to go 12 speed chorus… Anyone have any experience? Why is twelve speed heavier??
There’s another cog?
Well sure, but the cranks on the 12 spd groupset are heavier, as are other parts
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I was mostly being an ass
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Follow up question: Was Grant right about mounting thumbies upside down?
Yes, mostly, atmo
Although IME it depends on the exact shifter and bar collab.
classic Fred
I have an Eighties italian road bike that is running some of those horrifying 200g 26.0 carbon Easton drop bars. They are nice and I love them but I am being double bad by running them on a single-bolt-clamp 90mm nitto dynamic stem. The wrinkle is that my rims are black, my seatpost is (faded) black, my cranks are (carbon) black, and so is my stem. Is it a terrifically dumb idea to buy one of these two-bolt 26.0 nitto stems for $70 shipped and paint it, or just get a threadless adaptor and a kalloy and make my bike heavier and uglier, or get a Columbus Minimal fork and hope it squeezes these measured-30mm GP5Ks and get a modern stem and bar or just run everything as I have it I’m not dead yet!
Are new aluminum bars really not an option? I’m all for weird old stuff, but ancient lightweight carbon drop bars are something I’d prefer to avoid.
If you MUST keep the bars, I’d advocate for an innicycle conversion headset/adapter combined with a Thomson Elite 26.0 stem, specifically because of the way the steerer clamp is integrated keeps it looking really clean and more like a quill stem than when the steerer clamp bolts are like ugly warts on the backside.
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