Third Time's a Charm: Litespeed T3

[SLCBrandon]

You're like the poor person version of Bely

Late competitor for 2017 post of the year.

[4ibanez]

You're like the poor person version of Bely

Late competitor for 2017 post of the year.

Agreed
But you can't fault the attention to detail!

[Nefarious86]

Name change to BelyJR

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[KarlC]

You're like the poor person version of Bely

Yes thats true of about 98% of all of us on this site right ?

[RyanH]

Seems like the bike isn't immune to the holiday weight gain:



P.S. @imaking20 I win, lol.

[RyanH]

Here's the weights:

Competitive Cyclist is taking after Amazon with their packing...



65g penalty over Campagnolo Dual/Single with KCNC pad holders BUT these are the sole reason I got 9100:








Too lazy to tare the box but gross weight of the housing and cables and box:





After trimming everything we're left with:


Polymer housing ended up being around 135g total, which is about a 50g penalty over iLinks. I haven't run traditional housing in years so I figured I'd try 9100 in its fully intended state before going back to iLinks.


Total weight penalty is around 130g...or a lot. I went on a short test ride tonight and I'm really impressed. It's extremely refined and I think Shimano has perfected rear indexing. There's no chance of over shifting, it just goes exactly where it's supposed to. I'll need to revisit the FD though as I feel like shifting was better with SR up front. That may always be the case though as I'm not a fan of tapping twice to go down to the little ring. I get that you have to do that with Campy but you push through until there's a hard stop, so it's one fluid action.

[Lightweenie]

I can't judge function since I never run Campagnolo, but regarding looks and weight this seems to be a downgade .

[themidge]

Looks mean All that blackness makes the frame seem much brighter. New wheels?

[RyanH]

Well, as with all holiday weight gain, a new year's resolution of weight loss shall ensue.

[jrobart]

Decals came in:

Ryan:

Where did you get these downtube decals? They are stunning.

Even though I am a devoted Seven guy, I just picked up a Litespeed T5G frames. Building it up with Ultegra Di2 and Ksyrium Allroad Pros. Hoping it will be finished today! I blame you and Imaking20 and your spectacular recent threads for this somewhat impulsive buy. But given the deal I got on the frame and the fact that I had the Di2 groupset sitting in the garage, I just couldn't resist.

[RyanH]

They're from graphics shack:

http://www.graphicshack.co.uk/litespeed ... -528-p.asp

[jrobart]

Thanks!

[RyanH]

These didn't last very long... Like 500mi or less to be slightly less dubious:

[Imaking20]

I've got more life left on the pads that came with my 58s. And the pads that came with the 46s are still in the packaging.

[RyanH]

Is that a testament to how much you ride?