So far I have shaved.5 lb from the bike handlebars: factory (cut to fit my shoulders) to easton ec70 241g-131g= 111g saved KCNC bone stem TOTAL WEIGHT SAVINGS: 160g-108g=52g esigrips replacing big nasty factory grips: a long time fav of mine. 102g-56g=46g removed shimano SLX gear indicators: saved 20 grams.
More pics on my blog: I have some eggbeater 4ti pedals coming in. Very excited. I'll be moving my candy SL to the monstercross bike (another project thread) Will be weighing these and seeing the savings after this. The bike looks great, the next step are some wheels. So far I'm thinking about building something up with chris king hubs. Front needs a 15mm axle QR or an adaptor.
What could I do to make it lightweight? What is, generally, considered 'lightweight' (without a serious durability compromise) for a 29'er wheelset? I weigh 146 lbs. Those stans rims look very very nice.
Now, I must decide on hubs. I'm quite partial to the king hubs, on one hand because they are available in many colours, and I'd like to make my bicycle a bit ugly by adding on bits of strange colors. What to do on a GIANT XTC. Industry nine are available as hubs or complete wheels. Is it worth it to get the full wheel from them or just their hubs. The idea of 3 degrees of idle travel before 'catching' seems rather nice.
They are a bit on the pricey side, though. I'm also thinking about examining the crank bros wheelsets for the 29'er. They are supposed to have cobalts in 29 diameter now? If I could only get my santa cruz blur LT sold that would go a long way to getting these wheels built more quickly!
Nice looking build I will be following it. I'm riding for a giant team this year and will be building up an xtc 29er 1, once it shows up.
I will be swapping over my xtr kit to it and have ordered some dtswiss/stans wheels. Should be a decent weight when I'm done.
I will be using the Giant components, the top end ones look to be a decent weight and I get a nice deal on them. Frame Giant Alloy XTC 29er Fork FOX 32 F29 RL-100 w/15QR Thru Axle and tapered steerer, 100mm trave Crank Shimano XTR 2x9 38/28 specilties TA Stem Giant carbon stem Seatpost giant carbon Handlebar Giant Carbon flat Brakes Shimano XTR Shifter Shimano XTR FD Shimano Durace with Spleen adaptor RD Shimano XTR Wheels Stans Crest, D swiss 240s Saddle Fizik Tundra Grips ESI Chunky Headset Giant Cassette Shimano XTR Chain Shimano XTR Pedals Shimano XTR Cage King SS Tires Geax Burro Bolts Ti/Aluminum. Wheelset would depend on needs, but I would like to say, I was really surprised with how much I enjoyed riding the XTC 29er. It was snappy and nimble, reminding me why I loved the hardtail.
The geometry (unlike that of specialized) felt really good. I own a Fisher Paragon, arguably having the 'best' 29er geometry, and I thought the Giant was excellent. The stock wheelset is garbage, so I would recommend something from Stans, or a Bontrager wheelset. I recommend the Bontrager because they have what seems to be the best tubeless system on the market presently.
If you're a larger rider, and abuse equipment, I think something a bit heavier from Bontrager is going to work better for you in the long term. That said, I just built myself up a pair of Stans Arch rims on King Hubs for a long haul durable wheelset. I had come from the Bontrager Rhythm comp, which despite being heavy, was an excellent wheelset.
I hate to sell them because they have been so good to me. It's very assuring hearing the bead of the tire POP in to place and having to rip it out to unseat the tire. I think Mavic and DT also make nice wheelsets/rims but I don't the price/usability is worth the extra money. Make sure you take pictures of the complete bike!
DT Swiss legendary MTB rims were designed for serious off-road performance. Whether you are a pro mountain biker looking for an advantage at a world cup race, or a serious freerider looking for strength, stiffness and durability, DT offers a rim to suit your needs. About Our Custom Builds: All Wheelbuilder custom handbuilt wheels pass through our exacting quality assurance process, which includes full tension analysis with meters designed, built and calibrated in-house. Modern engineering production methods adopted from automotive and aerospace manufacturing are used to guarantee accuracy during each step of our build process. No detail in our assembly or quality assurance process is left to chance. Learn more about.
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American Classic lives and breathes high-performance wheels, and many racers who have the money and connections to ride any wheelset made choose Ameican Classic exclusively. The Carbon 58 deepprofile clincher wheel reflects the company’s conservative design philosophy-its braking tracks and tire interfaces are aluminum to withstand the furnace-heat buildup of descending mountain passes, while the bonded carbon aero section of the rim is a load-bearing component of the wheel.
The Carbon 58 is designated for road racing, triathlon and cyclocross. American Classic’s blend of lightness and reliability comes from sweating the details.
The bladed stainless steel spokes, rim profiles, spoke nipples and hubs are American Classic designs. The 24-spoke rear hub, for instance, uses taller flanges to increase the spoke angle in relation to the rim, while the left-side flange is moved inboard to even the spoke tension. Visually, the narrower flange spacing seems weaker, but testing- real world and in the lab- shows otherwise. The radiallaced front wheel uses AC’s 18-spoke Micro-58 hub.
The bearings are ceramic hybrid, and freehubs for Campagnolo and SRAM/Shimano are optional. Carbon 58 wheels weigh 1880 grams a pair sans quick-releases and run close to $1200. American Classic bills Carbon 58 wheels as all-purpose racing hoops, but we wouldn’t go that far. What they do best is maintain speed-once you roll up past 20 miles an hour, their heft vanishes and you can feel the Carbon 58’s working hard to keep you there. Triathletes seeking to upgrade to a versitile aero wheel would do well with a set. For big riders, Carbon 58s are a great everyday wheel with the added aerodynamic benefit.
If you weigh over 180 pounds and want to cheat the wind for less than $1300, buy them. DT Swiss weight-limits the RRC Tubular wheelset to 198 pounds, which should include all but the most massive road racers. White, double-butted, bladed spokes make the wheelset pop, and the carbon rim has a distinctive woven outer later that looks stunning at rest. Spoke nipples are DT’s hexagonal Prolock items, which ensure maximum spoke tension.
The wheelset is composed of the 20-spoke radial-laced 425 front wheel and the 24-spoke two-cross 525 rear wheel. The 190 hubset uses DT Swiss’ star ratchet freehub (Campy and Shimano/SRAM options) and can be disassembled by hand without tools. Our wheels were equipped with DT Swiss RWS Ti-shaft quick-releases, bags and Swisstop brake pads. The RRC Tubular wheelset weighs 1005 grams without quick-releases and costs around $3000. Easton was ripping it up in the high-performance carbon fiber arena when the bike industry was arguing about steel versus aluminum.
The EC90 SL racing clincher wheelset rises out of an unparalleled wealth of knowledge and the proof of this lies in the fact that Easton’s mission statement about its EC90 wheels begins with a description of its testing and verification protocols. The 38-millimeterdeep rim is built with a heat-resistant carbon that Easton dubs ‘Therma Tec,’ which resists heat deformation caused by harsh braking to the degree that the wheels are not weight-limited. To begin, EC90 SL wheels are beautifully made-molded into their final shape and finish so that every unidirectional carbon fiber is used to support a load or boost rigidity.
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Sapim-bladed spokes (18 radial up front, with 24 at the rear hub two-cross drive-side and radial left) are hand-tensioned using red-anodized alloy nipples, while the hubs roll on ceramic hybrid bearings. The rear hub has a high/low flange arrangement to help even spoke tension. Graphics are bold enough to let the peloton know that there is a new sheriff in town, but not so much that EC90s will convert your Colnago into an Escalade. EC90 SL wheels are made in Campagnolo and SRAM/Shimano freehub configurations and come with Swisstop carbon-specific pads, valve extensions, quick-releases and wheel bags. The set weighs 1460 grams sans quick-releases and will set you back $1798. Aggressive braking and a degree of crash insurance are the motivation for choosing aluminum rims-while carbon can be molded paper-thin in order to shape the Cosmic Carbone’s wind-cheating, 52- millimeter profile. Called Rimto- Rim (R2R), the unidirectional carbon spokes slip into notches in Mavic’s lightweight aluminum hubs and are tensioned with more or less conventional nipples.
Both front and rear wheels use 20 spokes in a cross-two pattern. Special spoke nipples hidden by the carbon shell (aluminum up front and brass in the rear) ensure that the wheel is serviceable.
Unlike most Mavic Maxtal rims, Cosmic Carbone hoops are drilled and thus require a rim strip (included). Mavic doesn’t go for ceramic bearings, and instead chooses ultra-precise stainless steel bearings which roll noticeably well. Mavic offers both Campy and Shimano/SRAM freehubs, and ships Cosmic Carbone SLR wheels with bags, special spoke tools, valve extenders, quick-releases, rim tape and bearing adjustment wrenches. The pair weighed 1595 grams without quick-releases and cost around $2000.
Mavic Cosmic Carbone SLR wheels mounted to Hutchinson Atom tires (100 psi) replaced the stock Bontrager wheelset of our Trek Madone race bike. The Swisstop brake pads did not require replacement, as they are suited to aluminum and carbon surfaces. Mavic requires a wide, 2.5-millimeter cassette spacer-which still placed the Shimano Dura-Ace cassette inboard, so we needed to re-adjust the shifting when we substituted wheels. Tires were initially tough to mount due to the stiff plastic rim strips, which prevented the tire beads from dropping into the rim well. Reynolds offers the clincher version of their successful SDV66 deep-profile aero tubular wheel for those of us who desire a more convenient (and significantly less expensive) tire for racing.
The SDV66 C uses the same airfoil as the tubular, so you won’t be trading speed for the switch to standard tires and tubes. Reynolds was among the first carbon rim makers to build a successful carbon clincher-which is no small feat. Composite rims are essentially reinforced plastic, and braking concentrates intense heat at the highly stressed rim flanges. Reynolds spares no expense with its 66-millimeter deep rim’s construction. A new higher-pressure molding process helps keep the carbon lay-up stronger and more uniform. The width of the rim at the tire is 22 millimeters, and it tapers to a blunt, 14 millimeters at the airfoil’s minor axis.
Spokes are bladed DT Swiss Aerolite, radial-laced to a 16-spoke HYB front hub, and with two-cross-lacing on the drive side/radial on the left to a 20-spoke DT Swiss 240 S rear hub. Reynolds supplies DT Swiss Competition brake pads-which run smoothly on special braking tracks molded into the rim surfaces. Bold, white graphics on black rims, spokes and hubs make it impossible to mask the fact that you are riding aero wheels-but that’s the point, isn’t it? Reynolds sells its SDV66 C wheelset equipped with a special spoke wrench, brake pads, valve extensions, titanium-shaft quick-releases, rim strips and an owner’s manual, which includes helpful training tips for first-time aero wheels users. Wheelsets are available with Campagnolo or Shimano/SRAM freehub options. The SDV66 C wheelset weighs 1675 grams for a pair without quick-releases and costs around $2600.
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