Carbonomas weight weeniedom

[Patrick Moore]

I just came into an older Calfee Luna Pro frameset (with Syncros hs and Bontrager cf bottle cage!). So of course I was hitting the digital scale and calculator keys to see what is what.

The Carbonomas fork with uncut steerer weighs 24 oz or 680 grams, or a mere 140 grams or 0.31 lb more than the Ritchey.

Thought you'd like to know.

Patrick "over and out" Moore, who nonetheless, after tireless and unending research and struggle and prayer, has mostly decided that a good cf fork is not dangerous (he thinks). (Older Ritchey Logic Comp with alum steer-er.)

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[Patrick Moore]

And: who knows? Perhaps get Chauncey Matthews to make me a more-than-Hetchins-or-Columbine-curly-crown lightweight steel fork for the Calfee? BTW, I plan to build it up with an AM hub.

Patrick "sometimes I kid" Moore

[ted]

Seems remarkably similar to the delta between a light carbon or ti seatpost and a lugged nitto wayback post.

[Kurt Henry]

Patrick, I was totally with you until you mentioned the AM hub. What rear spacing are you going for to work with an AM hub? Put an FM into play not long ago, but in an old English frame spaced about 115mm. Now you have me curious.
Kurt Henry
Lancaster, PA

[Patrick Moore]

Kurt: I had my tongue shoved hard into my left cheek. I'll probably build it up with generation-last, mechanical, Shimano, Ultegra, I suppose. Still in planning stages.

I'd love to have a CF road bike built for the AM hub, but until I can afford a Calfee or other top-of-line CF custom, I'll build this normal.

Which reminds me: About 6-7 years ago I came across a young man who had converted a nice CF Parlee into a a fixie. Despite the cheap, mass-outlet wheels and tires, and the even cheaper generic rat trap pedals (no clips or straps), the thing must have weighed south of 16 lb.

I do have as alternative an early '70s Libertas; this may get the AM hub if I don't go 26"-wheel custom for that application.

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