I have the same one and it is 11.7kg all in 26 pounds. It is a large.
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New Bike Post!!
Thats a great looking bike, congrats. My 2018 Sparks looking old an utilitarian by comparison 
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New bike day for me tooā¦ 
2023 Scott Spark RC Team Issue
Will be a little while before I start using it as Iām waiting to get the frame wrapped.
Also need to tidy the cables up a bitā¦
This is replacing a 2019 Spark RC comp alloyā¦ hoping I love this bike as much as that one!
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The lockout doesnāt look too bad on the new spark, cables seem much tidier, It must be the cable routing into the headset I guess.
A bike designed for AXS 
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I still canāt believe RS donāt do a SID fork and shock with AXS lockout!
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Yeah, once I shorten some of the cables and wrap some of them together etc I think it will be surprisingly neat considering that thereās 5 cables there.
very true! must just be a matter of time though right? āFlight Attendant Liteā or something 
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New take on the silent hub from a Canadian hub builder. Looks super intriguing. About the same weight as an Onyx Vesper but no weight or torque limit.
Itād be interesting to see how they perform in the real world. It seems like thereās a small amount of slack introduced to the system having to engage two separate āratchetsā. They only got released in the last few weeks.
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Iām really curious abou this! These guys are somewhat local to me, used to always see them selling hubs in the pinkbike classifieds. Iāve had a tough time finding reviews for their hubs. Slightly cheaper than the Onyx Vespers. A friend of mine has the Vespers and they are so nice, seem hard to beat!
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Yeah, Iām also super curious!
Iāve got a set of Black Aura Vesperās on order and am fizzing. These are super intriguing with how they are designed though.
Potentially low drag, very strong, and quite light.
Looking to purchase a new dropper this season. What are the current best buys for an endurance XC perspective? It seems like the XC-specific ones often have a ton of compromises in functionality (short drop without infinite adjust) to save weight that doesnāt move the needle for my ~25-26lb loaded bike.
Trying to balance weight and price on a dropper at 120(current)-150 range. Havenāt found any site that has consistent weights or prices for different sizes.
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PNW Loam.
Iāve got 170mm drop and with a decent air pressure it returns much faster than my previous 125 or 150mm droppers.
Reasonably light and lifetime warranty too. Only $329NZD too, which I guess is about $3USD. Seems cheap compared to the competition, excluding OneUp.
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Iāve been a fan of the Oneup dropper, super reliable, quite light, and great price. Hard to justify the added expense for pretty marginal gains.
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Iāve been pretty happy with my KS Lev Integra. 150mm, always works, no hiccups. It has a little bit of rotational play, but itās unnoticeable while riding and hasnāt developed anymore play in the two years Iāve owned and raced it (and I bought it used). The OEM lever sucks thoughā¦ I use a Wolf Tooth lever instead.
Edit: 31.6x150mm weighs (edit 3) 500g for the post only. Another 110-ish grams for lever and remote.
That said, as soon as I sell one of my road bikes, Iām going to buy a Fox Transfer SL 100mm (non XL) and give it a try.
2nd edit (cuz why not): if I were to purchase a new trail dropper, Iād probably get a PNW Loam or OneUp. I have zero experience with either and base that decision purely on other peopleās experiences 
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120mm is still overkill for where I am in the midwest for XC racing, from my limited experience 100 seems better still here
Iāve the same one up dropper fitted to 2 bikes over 3 years and havenāt touched it, and itās still working perfectly. It wasnāt my first choice but was available and now I donāt think Iād change. If I was going to, it would be to a fox sl, but would be losing the reliability and functionality for about 100g saving so probably not worth it for me.
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Thought I noticed something odd with mismatching reporting when looking at the Fox. It really is a shame they donāt give out any information on their post weights other than comparisons to their own product and the smallest dropper that they make.
The Transfer I could only find at 640g for the 175mm 31.6 version. They claim the SL is 25% or 128g lighter than the standard Transfer, and 327g for the 50mm 27.2 version. So who knows what a 150mm Transfer SL weighs? OneUpās smallest 30.9 90mm is 377g, so once the SL is an appropriate size is there any weight saving? The KS Lev Ci that can run nearly $400 is a āfeatheryā 471 at 150 and 440 at 125.
Makes the One Up or PNW Loam look like a no-brainer at 500/524g respectively, if weight is more important the 120 One Up is only 450. 10g could be saved in so many different ways on a heavier bike, plus who wants a 150mm post that is all the way up or all the way down?
Iāve been very happy with my BikeYoke Divine (not the SL), but itās not the cheapest option out there by any means. My fiance had a PNW (not the Loam, his was external cable routing) on an old bike and was happy with it (there was also a shipping snafu when we ordered it, and their CS was excellent to deal with).
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I have the BikeYoke Divine SL 125mm version on my Blur TR (got the shop to do the swap before I picked up the bike), and love it. Works great for meā¦