Some eye candy for the weight-weenies among us

[callmeishmael]

Pretty sure that Malcolm Borg has been building with the carbon ti hubs for a while. He won’t build wheels with them if you+bike >90kg, but last I spoke to him about it he said he’d had zero issues. His takeaway is don’t rock the ww stuff if you’re heavy yourself. Seems fair 🤷🏻*♂️

[pasadena]

THE weight weenie stem of choice w/ ti bolts. can't beat it
The design of the faceplate is the best in the biz too. Love the rounded, matched faceplate clamp.

No way I would put up with the hassle of the Darimo non opening faceplate. Looks cool though. Reminds me a bit of the Crank Bros stem design

Ogle design is my ww porn lately.

Originally Posted by deluz

For stems there is the Kalloy Uno 7.
99g for 80mm and only $29.89

https://www.ebay.com/itm/193880530254

[robt57]

Originally Posted by Clean39T

Plus... who rides bars that you can slide a stem onto like that?

Assume MTN stems pictured, no?

[HTupolev]

Originally Posted by rowebr

Yeah but the bar clamp area on those stems looks quite wide. I could be wrong of course, but it seems like it would be difficult to pass the tight bends on a modern bar through it. Any handlebar with a flat/aero top wouldn't work either.

The 31.8mm clamp diameter probably offsets the width somewhat.

[bobotea]

those extralite hubs look fire, i have one of their headsets and they do a pretty bang up job on their machining work

[krooj]

To throw some fuel on this fire... wasn't there a smattering of failures in Thomson X2 stems back when they were "it"? Those stems are decidedly not WW...

[CAAD]

Originally Posted by bobotea

those extralite hubs look fire, i have one of their headsets and they do a pretty bang up job on their machining work

I'm a big fan of extralight. Running 3 of their headsets, standard ultratop/bottom, HD ultratop on the gravel bike. Also running their chain rings on my 2 road bikes and my gravel bike. Fast road and gravel bike both running the hyper stem. I would be interested in their hubs but again a little hesitant on ww hubs.

[owly]

Been running Carbon-Ti X Hub SL disc on three wheelsets last couple years. Zero issues. 60kg rider.

[rowebr]

Originally Posted by HTupolev

The 31.8mm clamp diameter probably offsets the width somewhat.

Ah perhaps! All academic for me though…

[Mr B]

Yesterday I was checking this bike out on the R&A site, and came across a hub brand I wasn't familiar with.
Tactic Racing might owe Mercedes-Benz a few bucks for stealing their slogan...

[martl]

Originally Posted by 72gmc

Nice looking stem.

I’ll stick to riding a Nitto cromoly stem and trying to reduce my body weight.

I stick to riding a Syntace F99 stem. If I want more weight on my bike, I have one more piece of cake and another beer.

[flying]

Originally Posted by martl

I stick to riding a Syntace F99 stem. If I want more weight on my bike, I have one more piece of cake and another beer.

Those were very nice!
I had one on my Look 585
112 gr for the 120