Saturday, November 17, 2007

Cheap Weight Tip #14: Custom Canti studs



Sean of Vertigo Cycles sent this one in:

"Do they have to be simple?

Let's say you have a couple of feet of 1/2" O.D. 6/4 Ti bar stock lying
around, some time on your hands access to a lathe. It would also help if
you were an enormous geek. I made some Paul's specific brake mounts for my
Reynolds Ouzo CX fork. The little buggers save 16 grams...unholy."

Basically, Paul's brakes require a metal sleeve. Sean fabricated a canti stud so that you wouldnt need that sleeve. Sweet!





If you have a cheap weight tip email it to me at plusonelap at gmail dot com

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just wanted to make sure everyone knows this was born from Sacha's/Paul's mounts. It seems like a great idea for the frame...why not the fork?

Sean

Anonymous said...

You're referring to the rear mounts on the Speedvagen bikes?

Anonymous said...

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech/2007/shows/nahmbs07/?id=/photos/2007/tech/shows/nahmbs07/nahmbs074/Vanilla_Cycles_Speedvagen_rear_brake_mounts