Kestrel Project Complete (bar the fine tune set up) 17lb.4oz

[marin man]

Disc brakes have no place on a bike...through them away and you will get to below 24lbs immediately

 

[CTK]

What fork would a Kestrel of come with originally? Mag 21? Was there a rigid option?

 

[MADJEZ]

The heaviest part of my bike is the 200lb plus gorilla peddling so really not much point in me going the weight weeny route.

Good luck tho. The paint & stickers look a bit heavy !

 

[tintin40]

What fork would a Kestrel of come with originally? Mag 21? Was there a rigid option?

Finding a light weight rigid fork is going to be a big problem. Modern rigid forks are to long and throw the head tube angle out but are very light 500 gram region.
A problem :?

 

[mikee]

i thought you disliked suspension in any form

 

[tintin40]

i thought you disliked suspension in any form

I do :twisted: Only rigid forks

 

[stevec1975]

You can get the superlight (475g) Trigon Carbon Fork (Same as the Ritchey WCS but a third of the price) which has a 41.5cm A to C measurement, shouldn't muck up the handling too much either.

I just ordered one for my Litespeed to take it down to around 16.9 Ibs (with a few other tweaks)

 

[Tad]

Funny looking Trimble.

Made by the man before the Trimble. So that's OK

So it's like a retro Trimble then?

 

[letmetalktomark]

Makes a change to those bloody heavy Trimbles

Will you be using retro kit?

 

[tintin40]

Makes a change to those bloody heavy Trimbles

Will you be using retro kit?

My usual 'pick an mix' of both. :roll: If i could move all the parts from my 21lb Trimble this Kestrel would be under 19lb.
But KCNC kit make some tasty bars, post that are ultra light. So 18lb?