I've had a Red Bull Carbon x-Lite with Di2 for two years that I have been very pleased with. However, the thought of replacement cost on a clipped RD combined with the wish of having two road bikes (so one is in working-order while wrenching on another) lead me to my n+1'th. I had some parts lying around and wanted to keep things budget friendly, but somehow convinced myself that Sram Exogram cranks and Time xpresso 12 pedals are necessities
With experience from my Beone cross bike I chose to get a 1x10 setup. Living in Copenhagen it's pretty much a non-issue (unless you wan't super tight gearing). With 48X(11-28) I get a top gear equivalent to 52/12 and a low gear equivalent to 39/23 so going 1X10 is not that much of a sacrifice. I wanted a 50t but the frame didn't clear (when mounted in the inner position).
Build list (component, model, weight in grams):
- Frameset Caad10 size 52 1814
RD Sram Rival 185
Brake Caliper PlanetX CNC 202
Shiftlever Sram Force 160
Brakelever Sram s900 124
Gear cable 15
Brake cable 26
Housing Gore+Sram 84
Housing caps ??
Crankset Exogram (compact bb30) 356
Chainguard (stil missing)
Chainring o symetric 118
Chainring bolts Stronglight 16
Cassette Ultegra 11-28 238
Chain DA 250
Pedals Time Ti 154
Saddle S works Toupe 117
Bartape Specialized S wrap (planned)
Stem Rose OSC 107
Handlebar 3T Rotundo LTD 179
Seatpost 3T Doric LTD 157
bottombracket bb30 incl in frame 0
Wheelset IRD/Tune/CX-Ray 1322
QR Planet X 44
Tires Force/Attack 390
Tubes 160
Air 30
Cages tune 20
Total 6268
And a pic (sorry about the poor quality) as it looks at the moment:
It's still a work in progress. Definite changes are (besides the obvious of cutting fork, brake cables, and wrapping the bars):
Slam that stem cover
48t ct2 chainring and (bashguard style) chainguard (the o symetric rings is purely a placeholder)
'Rotor-style' chaincatcher
60mm carbon clincher wheels
With these changes I hope the bike will weigh in just below the 6.8 mark. Will post more/better pics when the build is in a more finalized state.
Possible future upgrades: Sram Red Cassette, Extralite expander plug, ti bolts, cablehousing, fibre-lyte chainring/guard and hell, why not a Berk combo (so much for budget ).
But before I get into those things I want the bike in working order to be sure about fit and gearing.