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Originally Posted by Talewinds
Calfee's been building one for several years now. Still a novelty, but kinda cool.
I think the bike in the pic at the top of the page should go about 14lbs based on the carbon lugs on the frame.
Interesting though, Campy Record shifters and derailleurs, but a Dura-Ace 7800 crankset. That's straight blasphemy in the bike world.
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Yeah, and its sparked a diy revolution of people using carbon tape (and then epoxy) to build frames.
As to the DA crank w/ campy shifters, I've ridden Record for 15 yrs or more, and someone just gave me a modern DA bike (older Madone w/ newish DA stuff) and wow, is that crank stiff and direct. I never thought a small guy like me could benefit from a stiff crank, but it just feels right and efficient. Yeah, I know Campy makes something similar now, but its uber expensive and frankly not as elegantly simple. Still prefer the solid feel of Record shifters though.