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Carver Titanium 24 2011

World's Lightest Full Sized Cruiser 15.625 lbs - 7.03 kg

The frame is a 2 lb 13 oz titanium Carver cruiser using the geometry of a 2011 Floval Flyer Fork- Answer Dagger- 24ozHeadset- Chris King 90 gramsCranks- FSA Carbon Pro 175mm Spiderless 365 gramsPedals- Aest Platform Pedals with titanium Axle 172 grams Chain- KHE Tanga Light - 214 gramsTires- Intense MK2 Folding- 404 grams for the front 402 grams rearTubes- Eclipse world's lightest tubes *** 50 grams each Seatpost- KCNC Ti Lite 146 grams ***Uncut at 400mm*** Seat- Tioga Spyder Twin Tail 143 gramsSeat Clamp- XXL 9.4 gramsBars- Custom Carver Titanium with laser etching for knurls- 366 gramsGrips- Titec 15 gramsStem- Primo Aneyerlator with titanium bolts 213 gramsBottom Bracket- Sinz titanium spindle with carbon shell 145 gramsBrake - Paul V-brake with all titanium hardware 165 gramsLever- 2012 Aest Lever 28 grams!!!! Brake Cable- Jag titanium Hubs- Profile mini with titanium driver and titanium female bolts with Red Profile volcano boltsSpokes- Marwi Titanium spokes Nipples- AluminumRims- FMF Powermoto 1.75Sprocket- Custom Homebrewed Components Spline ISIS drive without the spiderValve Caps- Mowa CNC 4 grams eachRim Strip- Yellow Velo Plugs- 6 grams each tire
I have to add... this is one of "those" bikes you really need to see in person to fully appreciate. The welds are amazing and when you grab the handlebars and seat and pick the thing up.... the mind has a hard time computing the weight of it. It's that light.

Legendofjd3 · 2011-10-15 8:15pm

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GAry · 2011-10-16 11:26am

Wow, a thing of beauty for sure..I would really like to take this bike for a spin..
Can we get some action shots? waht do YOU weigh? hehe..
Thanks for building and submitting..any place else you can lose weight?

Legendofjd3 · 2011-10-16 3:03pm

GAry wrote:
Wow, a thing of beauty for sure..I would really like to take this bike for a spin..
Can we get some action shots? waht do YOU weigh? hehe..
Thanks for building and submitting..any place else you can lose weight?

Wow. Thanks for commenting Gary.

I just found out about running a spiderless chainring with these cranks. That might lose a few ounces.
I'd love to get it under 16 pounds but that might require building a new wheel set.
And the cost of that might now be worth the ounce or 2 I could save.
I could hacksaw the post down a bit.
If I could track down a KCNC or Aest lever in red that would save an oz or so.
I have all winter now to figure that stuff out.
By spring time it's possible that I'll have this at 15 lbs 15 oz....
But for now I'm extremely happy with how it came out. I cut no corners in making it a normal bike.
Even has valve caps.

dpercival · 2011-10-31 6:11pm

That is a work of art, AWESOME!

Legendofjd3 · 2011-10-31 6:57pm

dpercival wrote:
That is a work of art, AWESOME!

Thanks man. I'm making a few slight changes to it. But it's going to be over the top when completed... and lighter.

dpercival · 2011-10-31 7:35pm

I have never built a bike with weight in mind. I respect the attention to detail.

Legendofjd3 · 2011-10-31 7:47pm

dpercival wrote:
I have never built a bike with weight in mind. I respect the attention to detail.

This is my 1st time ever building something with weight in mind. A friend of mine bought a Redline Flight 24 last year and I was blown away with how light it was right out of the box.
So I got together with the builder and dreamed this up. Tried to take every little detail to the extreme. Even after a year of researching the weights of every single BMX part out there I'm still learning. Never knew so much could go into shaving grams off a bike.

Legendofjd3 · 2011-11-08 8:30pm

Success!!!!! Finally dipped into the 15 pound range. "Just" though. 15.99 pounds.

Only 2 more parts on the way. Switching the seat and waiting on a custom Homebrewed ISIS spline sprocket to be delivered.

Approx 4 more ounces will be shaved off. Then I'm calling it done!!!!

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ivegotabike · 2011-11-21 4:04pm

just plain sick!!!! What's it like to ride/ jump?

Legendofjd3 · 2011-11-21 6:01pm

ivegotabike wrote:
just plain sick!!!! What's it like to ride/ jump?

It's pretty scary. It's only been out once, but it feels like a super light road bike underneath you.

While on the ride I noticed there was some play in the back hub.

Unfortunately I have to take the wheel apart and send it back to Profile.

They are going to do a rebuild for me or replace it all together.

But since it's winter time in upstate NY I really don't care much.

Just waiting on my spline drive to get here so I can gets it's official FINISHED weight.

Next spring I'll be riding it quite a bit though.

Thanks for the comment.

myone · 2011-11-21 6:05pm

Man this thing is KILLER!!!!!!!

ivegotabike · 2011-11-21 6:17pm

What weird feeling that must be. Your mind is thinking THIS IS A BMX but it don't feel like no BMX. A well thaught out build! I may look into hooking myself up with at least a frame & fork some day.

Legendofjd3 · 2011-12-10 5:47pm

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Legendofjd3 · 2011-12-12 9:54am

2nd to last piece on this project. This custom made sprocket from Homebrewed Components should save about 3 ounces. It will allow me to run a spline drive ISIS and I can remove the spider from the carbon cranks for further weight reduction.
3 oz here and 2 ounces on the new seat and it's a wrap.

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Legendofjd3 · 2011-12-12 10:22am

I got to looking at it and the hole seems too big. Not sure if this is going to work

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bird · 2012-01-01 9:29am

cut off some of that seat post. might save few more oz.

Legendofjd3 · 2012-01-01 9:40am

bird wrote:
cut off some of that seat post. might save few more oz.

I thought about it. Thing is still 400 mm long.

kobeb16 · 2012-01-21 11:11pm

Sick bike man! Have you checked out the bombshell carbon bars.

Legendofjd3 · 2012-01-22 7:55am

kobeb16 wrote:
Sick bike man! Have you checked out the bombshell carbon bars.

Yes I have. I'm waiting on them to design a different size then the one they released. I haven't checked in awhile but the only size they had was a 8+ inch rise. I'd like to get a 6.5 inch rise when available.

To be honest, I designed this bike as a "full sized" cruiser and the only area I cheated on was the bars. They are classified as "expert" bars with a weight limit. So if I get the Bombshell bars... and I will, this will be a 100% pro sized cruiser, without any sort of drilling out, or any cutting down of anything.

Thanks for the comment.

one eyed joe · 2012-01-23 12:44pm

hey john, the bike looks super sweet! you did a great job bro.great to see it.ride on!!!!!!

Legendofjd3 · 2012-01-23 2:14pm

one eyed joe wrote:
hey john, the bike looks super sweet! you did a great job bro.great to see it.ride on!!!!!!

Thanks for the hookup man. Some things are just meant to be. Crazy how I got those wheels huh?

Thanks for the comment. I'll be logging some "easy" miles on this thing in the summer.

Cheers.

Legendofjd3 · 2012-02-01 5:40pm

Opinion...

Should I add this seat?

Now that it's in the 15's lb range I don't care about weight.

Seat is 95 grams, old one is 143 grams.

Looks???

ivegotabike · 2012-02-01 5:45pm

Go for it!! The black in it will round it out nicely!

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