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Got my rear derailleur down to 155 grams from 167. Should save another 14 with fibre lyte pulleys. also need to replace the main bolt. That might save 3-4 grams im guessing? Let me know what you think!


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A sram red rear derailleur stock is lighter by 13 grams over your tuned model.
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by Frankie - B

You could also say: "hey that is some great tuning work!"
Sure, a stock red is lighter, but this is what WEIGHT weenies is about. I'm happy to see somebody who is putting this much effort in tuning.

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+1 on what Frankie said.....I am going to buy a dremel this afternoon and getting to work! Nice job!

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I have about 8 hours of work into this thing haha!
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That is like what i've done to mine. you should leave out the barrel adjuster, should save a few grams there. I used the thin ferrule from the dura-ace cable set.
I don't need that adjuster as there's one on my frame's down tube. No need for two.
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by artray

Looks great and nice weight . :thumbup:
You Could see if stephen at fibre-lyte does a light weight cage

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I actually got the cages down to 4 grams each. I removed a lot of material. I would be worried about the durability on those 2 gram cages haha
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NiFTY wrote:A sram red rear derailleur stock is lighter by 13 grams over your tuned model.

But it still shifts like Dura Ace....
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I have the inner cage from fibrelyte and was the standard one but i took the dremel to it. now 2 grams and no problems with durability still good.

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Just ordered my carbon pulleys!!!
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Looks good! :thumbup:
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by JLFast

Awesome thread! Great work!

I too have a Fibre-lyte cage from Stephen, he has been great to deal with.

Ive got Ti pulleys and Ti bolt kit.

I must say, it never occurred to me to remove the adjuster itself?! Thats a great idea, and one Im going to try out!

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The a good idea but unfortunately I don't have barrel adjusters on my current frame but my wilier zero.7 that I just ordered does :)
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by bobbyOCR

Love it!

Looks the business.

I might take my dremel to a spare 105 derailleur to see how light I can get it. Nice work.

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