Well pretty much the last few upgrades.
I got a nicer carbon seatpost and upgraded some bits with z-race yokes so now this post works at an extreme angle.
The current seatpost/saddle combination now weighs in at a respectable 460 grams, so dropped about 140 grams right there.
Then, what I've been waiting on,
I had some money burning a hole in my pocket, so I got a custom built titanium spring/coil from J&L on ebay to fit the 1.5" ID of the rockshox vivid shock. And it is an extra light one, which has less windings.
It came in at 370 grams. Which certainly beats the 670grams for the original steel rockshox vivid spring.
300 gram weight saving on that part alone!!
The thing is though, and I'm still a bit miffed about this, is that it came in very short, shorter than I asked for I believe.
Well, they included a nicely-enough machined spacer made out of some sort of engineering polymer, but that is not really what I ordered/wanted/expected. And this is more or less what I was moaning about in
this other thread. Things don't always go according to plan. And I've been disappointed before.
Not only that but I paid extra to have it black PVD coated... to match the rest of the bike and blend in a bit and not scream
"I paid too much for a lightweight spring!". Except they didn't really finish the spring that well, it still has some pretty rough grinding marks on it at the ends. Which of course show through the finish. And being OCD about material finishes, I know I could have finished that better myself. Now of course, there's nothing I can do without wrecking the black. So it'll just have to do.
I guess it'll be alright and no one will see it and the bike is meant to be ridden.
And the bike will no doubt get scratched up with more use (the frame is already scratched from a few uplifts)
But I paid US$285 for this spring.
But I know it's there.
I won't bother complaining about it though...
Next, even with the spacer, it was probably about 0.5mm too short, the spring was just the
tiniest bit loose/slack which I know is going to make clicking noises. The shock retaining collar is/was at the end of the threads on the shock body. I ended up just cutting out a thin spacer out of 1.5mm cork gasket sheet that I have lying about, just as a stop-gap measure as I couldn't find any other materials lying around the house and I thought it would fare better than a piece of soggy cardboard.