My self-built 8.5kg (with flat pedals) Planet X Pro Carbon (Shimano 105) cost less than £1000 in total (pre-covid) using heavy Shimano RS31 wheels. I think all my previous comments on the other old article about weight-saving parts are still true. I recently bought a Syntace stem (MegaForce2) for the MTB, a bit difficult to track down but very light, if not cheap. It would be more cost-effective to lose weight from yourself by dropping your bodyweight instead if you can.Īre there any cost-effective lightweight bike upgrades that we've missed? Let us know in the comments. If you haven't worked it out already, the truth is that the rest is just tinkering. Some components also bring performance gains without huge drops in weight though, like the Hope brake calipers, which would allow you to hold off of braking as you go into corners where you might not need to slow down. We scrubbed nearly 900g there for about £830, although at the time of writing Hunt are offering those Carbon Aero wheels for seventy quid less. The wheels, tyres and inner tubes are definitely the most cost-effective, especially in the case of the Trek. Overall, you're looking at about £1 per gram if you update every component suggested. While we've tried to recommend affordable products in this article, if one thing is for sure it's that chopping weight from your bike/your Hairsine ratio (scroll down to 'H' in our A-Z of cycling jargon if you don't get that reference!) isn’t going to be cheap to get any significant gains. Spending £1,398.93 on your £2,325 Trek Emonda ALR (to bring your total spend on the bike up to £3,723.93) will take the weight down from 9.08kg to an impressive 7.60kg. So there you have it: if you go for all of our recommendations, the price of your Orro goes from £1,599 up to £2,737.90, and the weight from 10.49kg down to 9.46kg.
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