Why is my Focus Izalco Max Disc so heavy?
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"Why is my bike so heavy?" -> Where is the list with all parts & weights?
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Light and disc bike tend to not go hand in hand, unless you want to shelve out a bunch of money all carbon parts.
Woah! No wonder I was so shocked when I removed my RS-685 levers for the first time. I didn't put them on scale, but I thought "Wow! These are so heavy- why?? Hmmm...cast aluminum bodies..." Interesting to know how much weight these shifters are adding.Klaster_1 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 13, 2018 8:20 amAll non-series Shimano hydro shifters are over 500g, including ST-RS685 (~646g) and ST-R785 (~510g).
At least, some recognitionSquashednuts wrote: ↑Thu Sep 13, 2018 7:23 amSorry @Klaster_1...should have linked your bike...it's one of the lightest disk bikes on here
Ultegra r8070 di2 hrd levers 360gr/pair
Ultegra r8020 mechanical hrd levers 554gr/pair
Duraace r9120 mechanical hrd levers 538gr/pair
Duraace r9170 di2 hrd levers 320gr/pair
It's ridiculous that the shifting mechanism weighs 200gr over electric. On Sram red it's 20gr.
Ultegra r8020 mechanical hrd levers 554gr/pair
Duraace r9120 mechanical hrd levers 538gr/pair
Duraace r9170 di2 hrd levers 320gr/pair
It's ridiculous that the shifting mechanism weighs 200gr over electric. On Sram red it's 20gr.
That's why.
You can shave some weight by significantly upgrading the wheels, a little bit by switching to TIME or Speedplay pedals, and a little bit more by going to a full carbon cockpit. There's some further small savings to be had by going to carbon cages and Ti fixtures. Finally, the obvious, you could also go up to DA Di2 or SRAM Red.
Try making an Excel sheet carefully listing out your entire build, including cables, headset and everything, and try to get that total to show what you actually weight the bike as. Then in a column next to that, play with swapping out various things so you can see what it does to the weight per the cost of said upgrade. I do that quite often when faced with these kinds of things - or - when fantasizing lol.