A 6-pound road bike

A 6-pound road bike

I've posted some pretty light bikes in the past. In 2006 seemed this 7-pound Crumpton fixie incredibly light for me. A few years later, German professional road bicycle racer Gunter Mai built a reduction road bike that approximately the same weight (3195 grams). Gunter not just built that bike for show or he claimed to drive up to 1000 kilometers per week.

According to a post on tririg.com Gunter, however, is no longer that bike ride. He parted the online earlier this year. Some of these components, including the custom spin frame and THM fork, were sold to a Colorado rider who they go to Jason Woznick of Fairwheel Bikes in Tucson into an even lighter road bike sent (that now spread around the Internet like wildfire).

VeloNews has a gallery of photos of the Woznick one-time 6-pound (2700 grams) bike that were taken at the Interbike last week.The TriRig post I mentioned before also has some great detail shots of the bike, and they discuss how it came to be and where some of the parts came from. many of the components are custom, but TriRig stresses that prototype carbon dash hubs on the bike in production in 2011 (30 grams for the front) and about 99 for the rear.

So. .. If the pattern continues and people keep pushing the limits, I'll be posting a custom bicycle of the 5-pound in a few years.What do you think? where is the bottom limit of road bike weight? as much as my friends on the UCI don't like it, I don't think we have seen it yet.
Posted in Road, Tradeshows. Tagged with 6 pound bicycle, carbon, custom, lightweight, road bike. By James T 
 
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