130 Grams...Vanished!!!

WEIGHT WEENIE ACTION

USPS made a delivery of goodies today and this is what went onto my "project bike."

My original skewers were Mavics, and surprisingly, they were super heavy at about 150 grams per 2. I suppose these Elite Ksyriums were not upscale enough to warrant Mavic's top of the line skewers. No fear though...I installed these Zipp alloy and Ti skewers and they weighed in at a much lighter 100 grams total.

The Syntace stem is a 90mm / 84 degree stem and only weighs 100 grams, versus 180 for that generic stem I was running.

Pretty good investment ($60 and $80), I would say, to loose over 1/4 pound!

Now all I gotta do is swap out my Ultergra front and rear derailleurs and brakes and cassette for my Dura Ace components and I think I'll be looking at a pretty light bike with clinchers. Oh yeah, and I gotta change out my tires and tubes for some light weight ones and I think in total that will save another 150ish grams... :-)