Shimano Dura-Ace carbon crankset
September 2, 2007 by Michael Maage
Filed under Light Parts
Shimano is introducing a carbon fiber Dura-Ace crankset FC-7800C with an aluminum core to realize a lightweight yet very rigid construction.
Fulcrum Racing Zero Black & Red
July 16, 2007 by Michael Maage
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RACING ZERO: BLACK & RED
Fulcrum presents a new colour version, black & red, for the top wheel in its aluminium range, Racing Zero.
Schwalbe Ultremo
June 13, 2007 by Michael Maage
Filed under Light Parts
The company Ralf Bohle, also known as Schwalbe, supplied us with a set of their latest creation - the Ultremo – for testing-purposes. From now on, we will excessively long-term test the tires and check if all the superb previews are justified.
Schwalbe Furious Fred
June 2, 2007 by Michael Maage
Filed under Light Parts
A new record tire from Schwalbe called Furious Fred.
Size 26×2.00 - Target Weight: under 300g!!!
Selfmade Seatpost - 139g
May 9, 2007 by Michael Maage
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Michael Hamatschek has build an awesome seatpost out of carbon with only 139g in 31.6mm/375mm for MTB Use! Equal to Schmolkes and AX-Lightness Seatposts TLO or Europa.
Mythic Carboncranks - now available in Germany
March 26, 2007 by Michael Maage
Filed under Light Parts
Mythic Carbon now available at BTP - Bernhard Langerbein. The carbon cranks have a 140-142mm q-factor and a weight about 282g. Avaliable as ISIS or ISO Square Taper Version with 170, 172.5 and 175mm lenght for Roadbikes with 130 and 110mm bolt circle and four hole MTB XTR Version (300g). Prize: 485 Euro.
Tiso Front Derailleur Extreme
March 14, 2007 by Michael Maage
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An all-carbon Front Derailleur with an impressive weight of only 32g! This FD is Tiso-based and made of Carbon-plates which are agglutinated and finally grind down.
Magura Marta Red finally available
March 3, 2007 by Michael Maage
Filed under Light Parts
Owners of a 2007 Specialized bike, well not all of them, but the really high-end ones, had so far an enviable privilege: They were the only guys out there having red Magura Marta SL’s on board. What remains a privilege for Specialized as a MAGURA OE customer will be available for aftermarket end users from March 07 onwards.
Speedcomposites Sinus
February 28, 2007 by Alexander Köhler
Filed under Light Parts
Light wheelsets for road bikes exist a dime a dozen. But not all of them can combine all attributes of a really good wheelset, meaning an optimal ratio between lightness and stiffness. The most noted wheels in this category, like the Hyperon of Campagnolo, Zipp´s 202 or the Lightweight Ventoux also have a common disadvantage – the price.
Campagnolo Ultra Torque Ceramic Bearing Retrofit
February 28, 2007 by Michael Maage
Filed under Light Parts
Competitive Cyclist now offers the service of retrofitting your existing Campagnolo Ultra Torque crankset to ceramic bearings. Their ceramic bearings are Grade 5 — the highest quality ceramic bearings available in the marketplace. An added benefit is that both sides of their bearings have seals. The stock Campy bearings are sealed on only one side (most likely to reduce drag). The added seal to these bearings gives them added longevity. You can rest assured that by upgrading to the performance benefits of ceramics, you aren’t giving up on component durability. Competitive Cyclist in Little Rock, Arkansas. Price: $175.00!
AX Lightness Zeus
February 26, 2007 by Michael Maage
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Within the scope of our manufacturer portrait of AX-Lightness, managing director Axel Schnura presented us exclusively the new fabricated stem called Zeus, which was introduced as a concept study at last year´s eurobike in Friedrichshafen. The 67 gram light pre-production model ( 110mm length; 26.0mm diameter ) with an angle of 7 degrees will be available to the end-consumer in april 2007.
New carbon SRAM TT shifters & brake levers
February 26, 2007 by Michael Maage
Filed under Light Parts
The lightest TT set on the Pro tour: 237g.
SRAM, have already taken Road shifting to the next level with two innovative groupsets: SRAM Force and SRAM Rival. To further complete the product range and answer Time Trial and Triathlon needs, SRAM has developed state of the art TT shifters and brake levers. Featuring the highest quality materials and breathtaking design, the new SRAM TT shifters are the only shifters on the market using full carbon fiber levers. With black and red anodized aluminium plugs, the pair of shifters weighs is at an incredible 138g. To maintain quality shifts across a variety of chainring sizes, front shifting is operated on a friction mode; while the rear shifter is indexed to maintain precise and rapid shifts in all circumstances. An internal mounting system is used to make sure the new SRAM TT shifters can fit all industry standard TT bars. Only compatible with SRAM Force and Rival rear deraillleurs, SRAM’s new TT shifters will offer high performance to anyone driven to beat the wind. To match the TT shifters to perfection, SRAM offers for the very first time TT brake levers. The sleek design combined with a full carbon fiber blade drop the weight to an incredible 99g for the pair. The very low profile and extremely light blade, does not compromise on strength or durability. The ergonomic full carbon lever maintains the natural hand position while offering you a comfortable feel for enhanced control. Product available in June 2007.
Stronglight CT² - Campagnolo specific
February 20, 2007 by Michael Maage
Filed under Light Parts
Stronglight offers new specific compact chainrings especially manufactured for the Campagnolo compact cranksets range (110mm BCD). Outer chainring: 48/50/51/52/53; Inner chainring: 34/36/38/39. Weights: 34 grs for the 34t and 88 grs for the 50t chainring. The prices are similar to the normal CT² chainrings.
94,6 grams - xtreme light!
February 8, 2007 by Michael Maage
Filed under Light Parts
Peter from german IBC Lightweight-Forum has broken the 100 grams border for Rear Derailleurs:
Carbon-Ti carbon road-brake
February 7, 2007 by Michael Maage
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Carbon-Ti’s carbon road-brake is finally approaching its production release after intensive testing procedures.
Unlinke previous claims the brake is going to weight 95g (instead of the previously claimed 99g) and will thus be a direct competitor to AX’s Orion brakes. At ~695 Euro retail / 850-900$ retail they are going to be less expensive than even the smaller AX model, the Perseus, though. Most important with brakes though the actual performance: initial testing has been showing some serious stopping power on a “definitely higher level than other lightweight brakes”.
The carbon is being made by Becker-Carbon, a German motorsports carbon specialist, the rest of the hardware and the assembly is taking place in-house at Carbon-Ti:
a cycling brake needs to be made by a cycling company
Gerhard tells me the first sets of brakes will be released in ~20days from now.
From fairwheelbikes.com - Nils/p0kr
