Real road bike = 6.28 pounds

[kaisen]

I'm not a road bike guy. But I can appreciate a bike like this....

World’s Lightest Bike

[Racerbvd]

SWEET!!!! I think I will that my Cannondale BMX bike for a ride after looking at this.. My old skate park Bottema Forks weighed 1/2 of that bike..

[kaisen]

Spin Light Bike Het Fairwheel Podium | Het Fairwheel Podium

•Frame: Custom Spin
•Fork: Custom Handmade THM
•Wheel Set:
•Rims: AX-Lightness
•Rear Hub: Custom Dash
•Front Hub: Custom Dash
•Spokes: Pillar xtra
•Skewers: Tune U19
•Tires: Tufo S3 Lite
•Handle Bar: Custom Schmolke
•Stem: Custom NoRa
•Headset: Custom KCNC / Extralite Hybrid
•Shifters: Custom
•Brake Levers: Super Modified Campagnolo Record 10
•Brake Calipers: Ax-Lightness Orion Premium
•Seatpost: Custom Tune
•Saddle: Custom Tune
•Cranks: Custom Myth
•Chain: KMC
•Cassette: Recon Ti Cassette
•Seat Collar: BTP
•Rear Derailleur: Campagnolo Record 10 (Changed from Sram Red after Photo Shoot)
•Pulleys: Fiber-Lyte
•Front Derailleur: Campagnolo Record 10
•Grips / Bar Tape: Custom
•Pedals: Custom Aerolights

[widgeon13]

Probably cost more than a new Pcar Turbo!

[BlueSkyJaunte]

It would be fun to experience that thing completely delaminating as soon as I sat on it.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by blueskyjaunte

it would be fun to experience that thing completely delaminating as soon as i sat on it. :d

+269

[jtkkz]

Is it ridable?

How many rides will it hold up too

[RWebb]

wow!

I bet it costs more than $500!

[mikeferg75]

No way I'd even think of riding that... I used to "test" product for Nuke Proof when I raced for them back in the day. They were one of the first offering carbon anything and I can tell you it's no fun at all having ER guys use tweezers picking carbon bits from your arms snapped a handlebar.

[GH85Carrera]

I wonder what my 1960s era "Stingray" with three speeds & the big banana seat weighted. It had a lot of extra welding on the cracks on the frame.

[David]

After getting back into road bikes last year and buying a modern bike with brake lever shifters, I can't imagine going back to downtube shifters no matter what the weight penalty is!

[teenerted1]

Originally Posted by mikeferg75

No way I'd even think of riding that... I used to "test" product for Nuke Proof when I raced for them back in the day. They were one of the first offering carbon anything and I can tell you it's no fun at all having ER guys use tweezers picking carbon bits from your arms snapped a handlebar.

i have a friend that still has parts of carbon coming out of his thighs from time to time from a carbon seatpost that exploded under him in the early 90's.

[k9handler]

Sweet! Now this would be sweet for a 140 lb rider...but us 200+ guys could only truly gain an advantage by losing the pounds from our fat a$$es.

[BlueSkyJaunte]

Originally Posted by k9handler

Sweet! Now this would be sweet for a 140 lb rider...but us 200+ guys could only truly gain an advantage by losing the pounds from our fat a$$es.

Hey, I'm 215 lbs. of solid MUSCLE. Yeah, that's the ticket. Muscle.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by k9handler

Sweet! Now this would be sweet for a 140 lb rider...but us 200+ guys could only truly gain an advantage by losing the pounds from our fat a$$es.

Or pulling the splinters from them, if we sat on the thing...

[k9handler]

true...thats why I race quads now!

[dd74]

I've seen Cannondale's version of the world lightest race bike. It weighed 9lbs, cost $23,000.

Thing is, weight has come to pass as greatly overrated in cycling.

What really makes a bike fast or slow in any situation are the frame angles.

And the rider.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Damn cool but yeah - not for the average person. Probably only really usable by those 150-160# and even then I'd suspect only for a few months before falling apart.

That weight would make it illegal for many racing divisions (which establish minima to make it be more about strength/skill and less about who can throw more money at their equipment)

[kaisen]

According to the articles (linked above) this bike has seen over 12,000 miles of use

So it has held up pretty well

[BlueSkyJaunte]

That's impressive. Hell, most Ferraris don't last 12k.