Ok I just weighed the whole stable and I wish I hadn't...

[scant]

Not sure I know what you mean john?

"As for those who suggest you should lose some weight? You clearly don't get it" :?:

Back when I was semi-decent (15 years ago ) I remember lots of fat blokes on kleins plodding uphill and I have to admit to taking great pleasure in whizzing past on my heavy 28.5 pound bike (BITD I did know my bikes weight ).

I think this impressed on me that light and expensive wasn't always "best", a well balanced bike with parts that work well and don't fail on you, even if it puts your bike up a few weight divisions is no bad thing in my book.

And speaking as a man who could always lose a few pounds round the middle, getting thinner and fitter will help my cycling 100x compared to kitting the bike out in teeny weeny shiny bits IMHO. (and is bloody cheaper too )

Your bikes weight, like your age is all in the mind, You can choose to dwell on it and feel depressed or you can ignore it and live ihappily in a town called denial.

thats a pretty good summary I fully admit to being a weight weenie, but I dont obsess over it anymore, mainly as I used to ride 21lb hardtails, where as now I can clear trails (going up!) & much faster everywhere else on a bike that weighs 9lbs more! for years I thought the lightest bike was the fastest, but thats sooo not true (I've got a sub19lb hillclimb bike & I cant clear the steep loose stuff that I can on the 30lb freeride bike! )
its very noticeable how much modern production bikes weights are dropping in recent years.

I dont suppose you used to race NPS in the early 90s? I can remember some kid wearing trainers on a raleigh mustang absolutely killing the field at margam park with all the klein & merlins struggling at the back. we gave a massive cheer everytime he went past
I chatted to him after the race & his bike was a tank! :shock:

 

[clockworkgazz]

I never raced scant, wish I did now, think I might make the trip down to MM next year but love the mustang story, along the same lines story wise, I did the glasgow to edinburgh bike ride (55 miles) last year and one wee guy did it on a bmx, trainers, jeans and t-shirt, and of course it being scotland, it pissed down all day- He did it in about 4 hours :shock:

 

[scant]

I never raced scant, wish I did now, think I might make the trip down to MM next year but love the mustang story, along the same lines story wise, I did the glasgow to edinburgh bike ride (55 miles) last year and one wee guy did it on a bmx, trainers, jeans and t-shirt, and of course it being scotland, it pissed down all day- He did it in about 4 hours :shock:

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kinda like when tomac had that stop off in iceland & got over taken by the massive icelandic bloke doing his mega mileage commute to work on a jalopy

 

[Pickle]

I'm not a weight weenie with my MTB's, but admit to being one when I was a roadie.

My fixed wheel road bike (great for medium gear events and hillclimbs) must have been about 15lbs! :shock: A Columbus frame, 2 wheels, drop bar, cranks and a front brake......man that thing flew!!

 

[The Ken]

My GT is 25lbs, most of the weight is in the wheels, I don't mind it there, it keeps me on the ground and my centre of gravity slightly lower than my beer belly

 

[No Longer Registered]

You would never catch me weighing bikes. I'm under no illusion that light weight makes up for lack of fitness but the weight weenie fetish does while away hours at work contemplating what to waste money on to loose 2grammes. The way I look at it is if I don't spend my money on pointless crap my missis will spend that money on even more pointless crap like Sofa's and lampshades.

 

[Xesh]

I think this impressed on me that light and expensive wasn't always "best", a well balanced bike with parts that work well and don't fail on you, even if it puts your bike up a few weight divisions is no bad thing in my book.

This puts me in mind of a friend of mine. I think it was in the mid 90s we both decided to do an experiment. We found the cheapest bike at the time (a Magna Fugitive if you're familiar with them) and decided to enter a race with it. All we changed were the tyres and we added toe clips and straps.

Now, bearing in mind that this bike was made from gas pipe and had steel wheels and calliper brakes, you can see where this is going, can't you?

When he finished the race in the top ten (out of about 200) you should have heard some of the comments people made! One guy even tried to get him disqualified because he couldn't believe he'd been beaten by someone on such a cheap bike. He was obviously disappointed that his XTR and Spin equipped Zaskar couldn't beat a £99 bike.

What made it even funnier though was the fact that it was very muddy and the brakes hadn't worked at all after the first hill! He'd had to drift through all the corners speedway style!

It just goes to show that it's the rider and not the bike. Although having a light bike gives a psychological edge.

 

[REKIBorter]

The way I look at it is if I don't spend my money on pointless crap my missis will spend that money on even more pointless crap like Sofa's and lampshades.

Here here

 

[JustKev]

My Roberts time trial bike was disappointing, 23lbs.

Thats quite heavy for a TT rig :shock:

Needs to be sub 20lbs really.

Think you may be out of touch Jon. Modern road rigs are sub 8kg (16.5lbs)

Was reading Dirt last night. Christophe Sausers world champs bike - FS XC was 19.7lbs! :shock:

.Dont ever weigh a steel Yeti

not unless you have strong scales hung from an RSJ

 

[scant]

The way I look at it is if I don't spend my money on pointless crap my missis will spend that money on even more pointless crap like Sofa's and lampshades.

Here here

so true!