How much does your gravel bike weigh? (why are they so heavy?)

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markdjr
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andreszucs wrote:
Sat Apr 22, 2023 9:24 pm
Here is mine:18.62lbs/8446g

120mm Rear /150mm Front travel, 10-46 15sp cassette, (10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-19-21-24-28-33-39-46) wireless. Two stage fork, lockable at 110mm axle to crow shortened.
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This is awesome, I bet it's a lot of fun. How does it feel on the road? Noticeably slower than a traditional drop bar bike with comparable tires?

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markdjr wrote:
andreszucs wrote:
Sat Apr 22, 2023 9:24 pm
Here is mine:18.62lbs/8446g

120mm Rear /150mm Front travel, 10-46 15sp cassette, (10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-19-21-24-28-33-39-46) wireless. Two stage fork, lockable at 110mm axle to crow shortened.
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This is awesome, I bet it's a lot of fun. How does it feel on the road? Noticeably slower than a traditional drop bar bike with comparable tires?
I’ve been riding this set up for over 2 years now, also going on segments and trying to PR where I use to go with my road bike, didn’t notice this bike slowing me down, plus, the extra confidence the suspension offers might be making me faster actually. I just got done making my 15 speed cassette work from 10T to 46T (10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-19-21-24-28-33-39-46) so that’s another plus of this bike, small steps during shifting on the road, and the big ones 33-39-46t for the dirt fire roads and technical riding if I want to.

You can see the cassette shifting here:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CrrcS0HL ... MyMTA2M2Y=


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Brabus
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by Brabus

I'm having hard time understanding that bike, why not run it with with full mtb setup with just fast rolling tyres?

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by andreszucs

Brabus wrote:I'm having hard time understanding that bike, why not run it with with full mtb setup with just fast rolling tyres?
Sure, that’s a personal preference, I like having the ability to duck on the drop bars when I’m going fast on the road…


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@Andreszucs, your build deserves its own thread

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jeanjacques wrote:@Andreszucs, your build deserves its own thread
I’m on Instagram:

https://instagram.com/themonstergravel? ... MyMTA2M2Y=


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Hi I’m building a gravel (monster cross or so) starting from an epic ht 2020 frame painted black size L, so it’s something around 980gr
Fork sid SL without remote 1380gr
Stem 50mm 76gr on off helium
Handlebar AliExpress/znino drop flared 190gr
Levers/brakes red disc 11v w/mod from ratio technology>12spd ~900gr
Adapters flat mount>post mount 32gr
Seat Specy power sworks 155gr
Seat tube Specy sworks 180gr
Crank dub x0 175 w/32 chainring 480gr
Chain 280gr
Cassette xx1 10-50 360gr
Wheels yushun 29x30 inner width 1420gr
Tyres to be choosen, but something aroun 550gr x2
Pedals AliExpress spd 280gr
Rear derailleur xx1 12v 275gr
Cable 50gr
Formula disc brakes 200gr
Handlebar tape ~100gr
Sram dub bb 80gr
60gr latex
40gr tape+valve
55gr axles
headset ~80gr
8.76kg

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FishNo6
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andreszucs wrote:
Mon May 01, 2023 1:39 pm
jeanjacques wrote:@Andreszucs, your build deserves its own thread
I’m on Instagram:

https://instagram.com/themonstergravel? ... MyMTA2M2Y=


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This looks so silly and I love it - a wonderfully creative and well engineered piece of work. Thanks for posting. Forgive my suspension ignorance; how easily can you switch between gnarly (if that's the right word), gravel & road settings?

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FishNo6 wrote:
andreszucs wrote:
Mon May 01, 2023 1:39 pm
jeanjacques wrote:@Andreszucs, your build deserves its own thread
I’m on Instagram:

https://instagram.com/themonstergravel? ... MyMTA2M2Y=


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This looks so silly and I love it - a wonderfully creative and well engineered piece of work. Thanks for posting. Forgive my suspension ignorance; how easily can you switch between gnarly (if that's the right word), gravel & road settings?
The front suspension is super easy to lock, I just need to tap the right top cap down and the fork will drop the axle to crown by about 1 1/2 inch, and lock it, when things become bumpy, there is a blow off valve to automatically unlock the fork to use the full 150mm of travel. The rear I’m still hand switching a small lever to lock it, but I have plans to include a wireless remote on my handlebar to lock/unlock the shock down the road.


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Steve Curtis wrote:
Sat Apr 29, 2023 9:36 am
PaulJ wrote:
Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:02 am
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Size M On-one Free Ranger (Carbonda CFR696). Paint removed and clear lacquered over the bare carbon
Force 1x shifters, 170mm cranks with 38T chainring, Stages LH PM
Force 1x medium rear mech
XG1175 10-42 cassette
Red 22 chain
Hope RX4+ brakes (+20mm front so no adapters)
Galfer wave CL discs, 160mm front, 140mm rear
Zed Gravel Wide Race 35 wheels
G-One R 45mm tyres
Pro discover 12° flare bars, 40cm wide
Deda Zero 100mm stem
Fizik Antares R3 carbon saddle
Lightbicycle seatpost
Bontrager Comp pedals
Lifeline out front mount
Vel carbon cages

8.35kg all in. Pleased with that considering it's a reasonably budget build with chunky tyres. Feels awesome coming from a 10.25kg Kinesis Tripster!
Interested in seeing this as I'm just stripping the paint from my free ranger.
Edited the original post - the links to Amazon photos worked initially, I'm not sure why they stopped working. It's tricky to show how the carbon looks though anyway!

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9.15kg as shown.
Stock build with Sram Rival 1x XPLR. Some cheap Canyon bottle cages, Wahoo mount, Pirelli Cincturato Gravel H tires - 45mm wide - set up tubeless.
Pedals are Xpedo Spry (a bit below 300g a pair).

Taking into account that the stock wheels are real boat anchors and the tires are rather heavy I think it's a decent weight overall. It's an XS so the wheels are 650b.

Not intended as a weight wennie bike at all. I guess if I wanted somthing <8kg I would need much lighter groupset, carbon wheels and lighter tires but even then it would be difficult without going after handlebar/bottlecages and other details.

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by darkmother

PaulJ wrote:
Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:02 am
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Size M On-one Free Ranger (Carbonda CFR696). Paint removed and clear lacquered over the bare carbon
Force 1x shifters, 170mm cranks with 38T chainring, Stages LH PM
Force 1x medium rear mech
XG1175 10-42 cassette
Red 22 chain
Hope RX4+ brakes (+20mm front so no adapters)
Galfer wave CL discs, 160mm front, 140mm rear
Zed Gravel Wide Race 35 wheels
G-One R 45mm tyres
Pro discover 12° flare bars, 40cm wide
Deda Zero 100mm stem
Fizik Antares R3 carbon saddle
Lightbicycle seatpost
Bontrager Comp pedals
Lifeline out front mount
Vel carbon cages

8.35kg all in. Pleased with that considering it's a reasonably budget build with chunky tyres. Feels awesome coming from a 10.25kg Kinesis Tripster!

That looks great! I have the same frame-how did you remove the paint? Looks as though you swapped the fork as well, what is it?

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Cannondale Super X cx.
6.56kg with roadie setting. 11-28 cassette and 25c tires with tpu tubes.


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PaulJ
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by PaulJ

darkmother wrote:
Fri May 19, 2023 10:25 pm
PaulJ wrote:
Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:02 am
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Size M On-one Free Ranger (Carbonda CFR696). Paint removed and clear lacquered over the bare carbon
Force 1x shifters, 170mm cranks with 38T chainring, Stages LH PM
Force 1x medium rear mech
XG1175 10-42 cassette
Red 22 chain
Hope RX4+ brakes (+20mm front so no adapters)
Galfer wave CL discs, 160mm front, 140mm rear
Zed Gravel Wide Race 35 wheels
G-One R 45mm tyres
Pro discover 12° flare bars, 40cm wide
Deda Zero 100mm stem
Fizik Antares R3 carbon saddle
Lightbicycle seatpost
Bontrager Comp pedals
Lifeline out front mount
Vel carbon cages

8.35kg all in. Pleased with that considering it's a reasonably budget build with chunky tyres. Feels awesome coming from a 10.25kg Kinesis Tripster!

That looks great! I have the same frame-how did you remove the paint? Looks as though you swapped the fork as well, what is it?
It's the old style fork (the frameset is 2 years old). I was actually pleased when I realised I'd got one before the updated fork with mounts came out. I've no need for fork mounts and it made removing the paint in that area less fiddly.

To remove the paint was a pretty laborious process, but not technically difficult. The One-one paint was SUPER thick, 3 coats in places plus clear, so I did the bulk of the work with a blade scraping it off, then sanded with 400 grit wet. Sanding got through the paint pretty easily, it's the clearcoat which is the hardest. I airbrushed some small areas black to cover up some parts I didn't want to be seen or were too fiddly to remove all the paint, like round the drop outs, rear brake mount and bottle cage inserts. There was also a big sticker in the resin on the downtube with the frame details, so this got covered up too.

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by darkmother

PaulJ wrote:
Mon May 22, 2023 10:30 am


It's the old style fork (the frameset is 2 years old). I was actually pleased when I realised I'd got one before the updated fork with mounts came out. I've no need for fork mounts and it made removing the paint in that area less fiddly.

To remove the paint was a pretty laborious process, but not technically difficult. The One-one paint was SUPER thick, 3 coats in places plus clear, so I did the bulk of the work with a blade scraping it off, then sanded with 400 grit wet. Sanding got through the paint pretty easily, it's the clearcoat which is the hardest. I airbrushed some small areas black to cover up some parts I didn't want to be seen or were too fiddly to remove all the paint, like round the drop outs, rear brake mount and bottle cage inserts. There was also a big sticker in the resin on the downtube with the frame details, so this got covered up too.
Thanks for the response. My frame is from Carbonda, and it appears to me that it has been painted flat black with no clear coat on top. I may try my hand at sanding the paint off-might be a good winter project.

I have MTB from On-One, and their branding leaves a lot to be desired from an aesthetic stand point. I can understand why you stripped yours bare.

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