Show us your super light road bike

[QuangVuong]

Over 20 years on, Kestrels still weigh the same. Good to see that the original Kestrel brand made some good stuff back when they started.

[elantra]

Kestrel legend, 8.4kilos as it sits, all stock 105 components, stock wheels, bar, stem, post and saddle, frame is mechanical and di2 compatable

Nice looking bike, you have gone to a lot of effort with details such as colour of cable outers and handlebar tape.

BTW, does the kitchen get much use? Or did you just clean it up for the purposes of good bike photography?

[lardass71]

Lol, bike is stock as it came from the shop, all colour scheme parts are factory, built bike before brecky, explains the cleanish kitchen, there's another bench that had the coffee machine doing it's thing


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[31991]

Nick one!

5.5kgs

[cerb]

That frame size looks like it's for kids?! No wonder it's light!

[toolonglegs]

N+1 ... Some wheeling and dealing... Young fella has a new stead!
On the cheap scales it's well under 7.

[foo on patrol]

^^ ^^

Foo

[g-boaf]

That frame size looks like it's for kids?! No wonder it's light!

At that weight, someone will be taping a spanner or something to the frame to get it up to 6.8kg.

N+1 ... Some wheeling and dealing... Young fella has a new stead!

Very nice.

[toolonglegs]

^^ ^^

Foo

Never even ridden ( properly ) a bike with Campag ... his first roadie is one!. Was looking at getting him a kids bike ... but he can already ride this one as it is set up. But I am going to put a shorter stem and flats pedals on for now. Bit expensive for a kids bike ... but only a couple of hundred euros more than you would pay for a proper kids bike weighing 10kgs and bottom of the line components. I can sell it in 2 years for a good price anyway.
Baptism today.

[g-boaf]

So how did he go with it?

I had this arrive at work today - with half the office wanting to have a look at it:



Fork (the non-Triathlon one) and bars are inside, but the bars look like they might be going back to be replaced due to the recall. Edit: Bars are okay.

It arrived from Girona, Spain via Boulder, Colorado in the States. It was a spare frame, never used. Looking at it, the thing is going to be nightmare to keep clean and free of scratches. The entire finish is completely matte - but it does look amazing.

[jaseyjase]

bokkeehhhh

[g-boaf]

bokkeehhhh

Yep - the trusty old battleaxe D3S and 70-200 F/2.8 VRII. F/3.5 and 200mm.

[QuangVuong]

Super aero and super light too?!

Is that what you're bringing to the M7/Narellen ride next week Saturday?

[g-boaf]

Lot of work to do and lots of parts still to get.

[rodneycc]

^^ you sure that's legal. Looks like you should have a special license to be riding one of those...

[yanjarra]

new baby. 6.5kg as pictured

[jasonc]

yanjarra - are the shifters oddly positioned on the bars?

[yanjarra]

I didn't think so, but could be wrong. Here's a better angle. What do you think Jason? Maybe a touch higher then normal? I have a pretty large upper body so like the feeling of being locked in securely behind the hoods as when they are lower i feel like i'll slip right over the top of them sometimes when i hit a bumpy patch.

[jasonc]

if it works, awesome. and it could be the shape of the bars that to me makes it look odd

[warthog1]

It looks like the bars are rotated too far forward to me and the levers are therefore mounted further back on the bar than they should be.
It only matters what's comfortable and works though I guess.

Edit: These from a few posts up look to be fitted more conventionally;

[Homo Suburbiensis]

I would say that the bars on that Scott are fitted very unconventionally. The main thing that dictates optimal bar angle is the position on the drops. If you think about how the hand positions change when the bar is rotated, the tops remain in the same position and the hoods are largely unaffected as you can mount/adjust them independently of the bar. The biggest change is the position of the drops, hence bar rotation is dictated by this. I am not taking a swipe at you, but I think with the development and popularity of compact bars (where they are largely designed so that an optimal drop angle has the top of the bar/shoulder parallel to the ground) everyone now just wrongly assumes that the bar should be rotated so that the top/shoulders of the bars are parallel to the ground. If you look at some older traditional shaped bars, achieving this parallel top section by rotating the bar up and mounting the hoods on the furthest point from the handlebar would result in a ridiculous bar position.

I'll post some pics to try and explain what I mean.
Look at the angle of the drops behind the brake levers. This angle is around what should be achieved through the rotation of the bar, regardless of shape.



Here is an example of a very poor bar rotation. The drops behind the levers are basically perpendicular to the ground, you would have to bend your wrists a lot (and uncomfortably) just to ride in the drops.


Here is an example of a bike of similar handlebars with much better rotation. As you can see it is rotated down and the hoods are mounted higher as a result.

[singlespeedscott]

Where do you put your hands if you want to ride in the drops for an hour into a headwind? There is very little extension behind the hooks to rest your palms comfortable.

[jasonc]

Where do you put your hands if you want to ride in the drops for an hour into a headwind? There is very little extension behind the hooks to rest your palms comfortable.

around a coffee and try again later

[jules21]

Where do you put your hands if you want to ride in the drops for an hour into a headwind? There is very little extension behind the hooks to rest your palms comfortable.

you don't! ride the hoods - it's been shown to be more aero than in the drops. i only use the drops for descending, to get my CoG lower.

[singlespeedscott]

More Aero

Not in my experience. You probably need to tell the world tour riders that when their making a break away. Or the guy on the front of the peleton trying to close the gap.