Happy New light Year!

This year ends today and it’s snowing beautiful here in Bergen Hope you enjoyed my blog will continue read it. Hopefully with many nice blogposts next year. Ending the year with class and showing a beautiful french hub from Concept64: And a video showing us how to lighten a Lightweight wheel, or just how to [...]

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The video from Zolder

Petitesreines deliver once again. Perfect video from the women’s cyclcocross race in Zolder:

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Sram Red, lighter rear derailleur

The guy I bought my brakes from is starting to get a light Red derailleur now. Soon to be under 100g:

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The lightest worldcup fs?

The Italian Junior XC Champion, Matteo Olivotto, have been rebuilding his naked Scalpel. Sanded by Eliflap, wheels from Extralite, steerer from Experimental Prototype, chainrings from Carbon-Ti, fork and crank from Cannondale and a lot of other nice parts. Look at the build here: Or look at the 7,98kg complete build here:

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Challenge Grifo 32mm

This seasons tire nr1, if you have a tight frame like I have. For training and racing everything that ain’t UCIraces a 34mm Grifo probably will be better. But as I have a tight mtb I had to stick with 32mm. It’s so tight so I had to remove the valve cap on the fatty [...]

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wheels, stem, spacers and tuned derailleur. nice christmas

Back in Norway again with some nice packages from Sweden. Got my new FFWD F2R DT190 wheels that have been waiting for me: A little heavier than I thought but really nice and good with some nice hubs as DT 190. Shimano body mounted but got a Campa body for it too. And a nice [...]

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Merry Christmas!

with the most unnecessary thing ever. Titanium valve caps: 2,25g for a pair and a price at 12,9€ at Dulight.fr

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Superprestige Diegem 23/12

Superprestige this evening in Diegem. The U23 World Champion Lars Van Der Haar won men U23. The Women World Champion Marianne Vos won the women category, with a nice fight with Sanne Cant. But in men elite Stybar faded after  pretty good start. Ended 6th. Instead Niels Albert won a with a fast end and [...]

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Extralite Roadstem OC

Today I got my new stem and some other small parts. Sadly I don’t have a good scale here at my mom. 

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How to Aquaseal dugasts:

If you of some reason buy A. Dugast tires instead of FMB (road or cx) then you have to do this. If you want the tire to last longer as the cotton doesn’t like water that much. Stu Thorne from Cyclocrossworld shows a simple way:

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