The Radavist

Back in the day, if you were a racer who was looking to lighten up your bike, you broke out a drill press. The process of drilling holes in various bike components is called drillium and long gone are those days. Now companies simply engineer lighter components without drilling holes to lighten them up. Easier said than done though!

At 128 grams (25%!) lighter than the regular Transfer posts, the new Transfer SL (super light) is the lightest mainstream dropper post on the market. With lever options for flat bars, drop bars, and 1x and 2x drivetrains, these new Transfer SL posts are at home on all bikes, from 27.2mm clamp to 31.6mm.

See more at Fox! … and how cool is that drillium post they made for this ad?

Photo by Keith Teket

With a killer paint job from Fresh Frame, custom components by Drillium Revival and the exceptional hand of Chris Bishop, this might be the best track bike I’ve seen all year. I’m seriously blown away here. See more at the Bishop Bikes Flickr!

Usually when you see Campagnolo Pista hubs with drillium, chances are, they came from the Paramount facilities in the 70’s, complete with Paramount track bikes. Rumor has it that they misdrilled them too large for spoke holes and had to re-drill them, giving the flange a nice, light, facelift.*

While the technological advancements (i.e. weight) of hub designs have improved since then, there’s still that nostalgic allure of a classic Italian component with little circles cut out of it. As others have noted “nothing is lighter than a hole“. Drillium Revival are the minds behind this masterpiece hubset pictured here. Their holes were drilled intentionally and will be gracing one of Chris Bishop‘s 2013 NAHBS bikes.

Oh and they didn’t stop with the hubs. They kind of went all out! See more drilled, milled, profiled and polished Campagnolo Pista at the Bishop Flickr.

*source: Cicli Devotion