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Old 07-Jan-2014, 20:01
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Originally Posted by milesaway
weighed a new and old type rears today- not very accurately on bathroom scales with disks and tyres on and both read exactly the same at 12.6kg!

I think the fronts are more of a total saving but I believe the later rears have more of the weight near the center making them more efficient, (faster/optimized) although I don't know this for sure.
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