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Check these out https://www.rodbikes.com/profiles/profiles.php?tag=ultra-light https://www.rodbikes.com/profiles/profiles.php?tag=ultra-lig... steel bikes ~13.5

• loeg 2y ago
  Yeah. Very expensive and with significant compromises.
  • grogenaut 2y ago
    could you expand? I get the expensive part, but they're also hand built customs so...
    • loeg 2y ago
      Rim brakes are not great in wet conditions and limit tire sizes to about 28mm. Lightweight steel tends to be flexy and susceptible to dents.
      • grogenaut 2y ago
        definitely with you on rim breaks... I thought they mention in one place they can put discs on these. I'm a large person and live in Seattle so I've been rocking discs on a cyclocross style bike since 2010 back when everyone was anti discs, they're far superior glad people finally got sane about them.
        • loeg 2y ago
          > I thought they mention in one place they can put discs on these. Yeah, they can do it, but they'll be a little heavier than those relatively light rim brake steel bikes linked earlier. (The rotors/calipers, hydraulic, fluid, stronger fork leg required all just add mass.) I'm also in Seattle! Disc brakes all day.