Well I Thought I'd Never Be One

[Captain Blake]

I'm trying to be a weight weenie!!

Ok well here's the deal.

I want to make my bike as light as possible, but without spending loads full of money.

AND WITHOUT DOING ANY GRINDING/DRILLING!!!

I have a Giant STP2 with many mods, wait just search for it in post your ride.

I don't want to be spending over $100

And the most grinding that has ever, and will ever happen on this frame will be the grinding off of granny ring tabs on cranks, which had to be done...

Cheers

[Squidly Didly]

Now why do you want to save weight on your bike?

Do you want it light so you can easily hop it? Do you want it light so you can pedal it far? Do you want it light just for the sake of attention?

Now unless you tell us 'why' you want to make it lighter other then 'because I can', you better be prepared to cough up some coin, or utilise a drill because everything on your bike is heavy...

[MUGEN]

Rotational weight is the key. With $100, you wont be able to get your bike much lighter so just focus on the cheapest and most effective parts. What tyres are you running at the back? If its like a heavy dual ply minion (they weigh over a kilo), and your finding it a bitch to pedal, then get some single ply's and run a bit higher pressure.
Stp's are feather weight already.

[Rexy]

How crazy do you want to go?
And how much strength do you want to compromise for the sake of weight saving?
Some possible things are: Cut the qr lever bits down, cut the bars down short, cut the balls on youre levers off, cut the seatpost down really short, take the pins out of one side of the pedals, lighter set of tires with thick sidewalls running xc tubes that kinda stuff
Whatever, i think tyres/tubes is the best way to go on youre budget for the most noticable difference.
Good luck anyway!

[Captain Blake]

Well before I changed forks, and ditched gears.

My bike was an absolute bitch, weighed a ton!!

And now it's sort of become an addiction.

I'm cutting the seat tube down a fair bit
Ditching DH tubes
Ditching front brake

I'm running K-Rads for tyres.

I really can't think of anything more to do...

[Dicky]

cut the balls on your levers off

I had to read that twice... (just how badly do you want to save weight? :o )

as Squid and others have said, there's not a whole lot you can do without also playing weight savings with your wallet.

BBB Boltup skewers? 69g (listed) a pair, and not stupidly expensive...

Light, Cheap, Strong - choose two.

[Captain Blake]

Maybe I should just save up for a whole lot of carbon...

Hmm where can I aquire some of these skewers?

Cheers

[Joel O]

on the more extreme side of weight saving you should be looking at trials bikes for inspiration, other than that xc tubes and single ply tyres is the best place to start

[Dicky]

Maybe I should just save up for a whole lot of carbon...in short, no.

You're riding street (well, you're building a street bike....:p) - Street = try stuff, fall down occasionally, bike bounces around and gets scratched up.
Scratched up carbon is BAD - it tends to fail catastrophically when subsequently stressed. (read: el snappo kablamo.)
OK maybe a carbon post - but even that's pushing it.

(Squid, I know you're running carbon bars on the DH rig. Pipe down :p)Hmm where can I acquire some of these skewers?
KHS Australia, a division of Bikesportz Imports. Check BBB's website so you know exactly what you're after, then give your LBS a call.you should be looking at trials bikes for inspiration
agreed...

[k3n!f]

Wheels are the best place to save weight cos they store a whole lotta energy. Changing the cranks could help too though cos street cranks are pretty meaty. It all depends on whether you still want it to be a street bike.

[Squidly Didly]

(Squid, I know you're running carbon bars on the DH rig. Pipe down :p)
Yes, but lets not forget that they're actually designed for DH use.

and before anyone wants to mention my carbon guide plates...
1. They're heavier then standard MRP guide plates, and
2. It's not going to kill me in a catastrophic failure. Sorry guys!

Appologies for being so sinical but you've pretty much got to change your entire build kit if you wish to 'weenie it up'... start with some 1" slick tyres perhaps?