My name is Rick Woods and i live in Roanoke,Va Im 5/8 tall and weigh 145lbs. After a custom fit it turns out that for my height that i have long legs and a short torso. I have been riding 54 cm bikes for the last few years but with the fit it was decided that i need a 55 cm with some other custom demensions .

I have the Photon set up to ride two diffrent ways.

1. Powermeter and Clincher bike. Bike has a Powermeter Quarq and clincher wheels Extralite with Edge 45 clinchers 1150g for the set. With this set up the weight is 4819g or 10.62lbs. This is with everything except my Edge 500 head unit. I have yet to weigh it. This is the set-up in the photo. This is the way i will ride it 90% of the time.

2. No Powermeter and Tubular bike. This set-up will have a set of Extrlite/ AxLightness Tubular rims around 750g for the set, i will have the wheels next week. It will have THM cranks and i may use a lighter cassett. Set up like this the bike will weigh about 550g or so lighter. So weight should be about 4270g or 9.4 lbs or so. Once i get wheels i will post pictures and final weight in this form.

To convert from one to the other will take less than 5 min.
The THM bearing cups with Hybird Ceramic bearings can be used with both the Lightning and THM cranks and the THM cups are lighter.

Build List
Brakes Ax Front 40g
Rear 36g
Holders Ax 23g
Pads Corima 8g
Bars Shmolke 141g
Bar Tape Lizard Skins w\plug 41g
Bottle Cages 2 Cycle king w/bolts 24g
Cables Shift 48g Brake 58g 106g
Cassett Red Tuned 11/25 157g
Crankset Lightning Left Arm 166g
Right Arm 146g
Quarq Power Meter 144g
Bearings/Cups THM 65g
ChainRings ExtraLite 50t 66.5g
34t 30
Chainring bolts ExtraLite 9g
Chain KMC 10/sl 224.5
Derailleur Rear D/R Red Tuned 117g
Front D/R BTP Campy 56g
Chain Catcher 3.5g
Frame Guru Photon 767g
Fork Edge 1.0 279.5
Headset Extralite with/Cap 40g
Pedals SpeedPlay Nano 129g
Saddle Tune Concord 60.5
Shifters Sram Red Tuned 243g
Skewers Tune 33g
Stem Extralite UL3 78g
Seat Clamp Custom 43g
Tires Conti SuperSonics F /136g R/137g 273g
Tubes Lunar Lite 102.5g
Wheels Front Hub Extralite/sx 50g
Front Rim Edge 45 Clinch 395g
Rear Hub Extralite/sx 133g
Rear Rim Edge 45 Clinch 390g
Spokes CX-Ray w\nipples 182g
Velo Plugs Yellow 38 6g
Front DR Clamp/Cable Guide 11g

Total 4819g 10.62 lbs

All hail the new champ

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Well, that's a VERY fancy bike!
Great frame and top shelf WW parts.
Can't wait for the weigh-in photos. Very nice, and I hope you enjoy the ride.

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dr Phil Gandini
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Ah, in the WW world, there's always (and I mean always) a lighter bike! That's why I eventually gave up trying to get my bike lighter...there's about 30 bikes in the world lighter than mine, and here's another one.
Fame and glory are fleeting in the rarefied atmosphere of under 5Kg.

As I said though, this is a very fine build, based around a great frame. And those AX wheels will be amazing.

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dr Phil Gandini
Link to my 11.5lb Neo Ultimate

Gorgeous bike but I cannot imagine how those bars would work well in the drops as they are set up on your ride.

Other than that...Bravo.

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Ah--but you're assuming he's going to ride that sub-10lb bike in the drops!

Wouldn't you just want to hang it on the wall and stare...?

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dr Phil Gandini
Link to my 11.5lb Neo Ultimate

wow! that's impressively light. 10-something pounds WITH a quarq. holy smokes.

i'd probably bust that thing faster than you can say, "pothole."

what kind of seatpost is that?

very well thought out. really nice. really, really nice. kudos & congrats to you.

bar position looks really weird. why?

In a word, no.

Bikes, to me, are 'functional art'. In exactly the same vein as my surfboards.


This bike is just....wow. To have a setup sub 4300g is simply amazing.

Well done.

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...and with clinchers, too! Wow.

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Bar drops are weird, but pretty nice canadian bike!

Great looking bike and I love the build list.

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I'd like to know more about your seat post! Thx!

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'11 Velocite Geos w SRAM Red || '08 Giant Anthem X0 w SRAM X0 || '93 Pinarello w Shimano 105

thats nice and light

The frame is an ISP, but the clamp looks to be integrated. Very fancy indeed! Sure makes for a light combo.

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dr Phil Gandini
Link to my 11.5lb Neo Ultimate

Makes sense. I must have misread it. I thought that the build list had a seat post, not clamp. Anyway, it's a great build!

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Asterisk*Cycles
'10 Velocite Millennium Elite SRAM Red
'11 Velocite Geos w SRAM Red || '08 Giant Anthem X0 w SRAM X0 || '93 Pinarello w Shimano 105