Weight, modern MTB's compared ?

[Tad]

I look at the mtbers now and just laugh at with their 6'' of skills correction

There you go tintin, fixed it for you.

 

[utahdog2003]

Man I must have heard you say this a hundred times.

I think you should come with me to Vancouver's North Shore this weekend so I can watch your amazing bike techniques overcome the need for disc brakes and at the very least front suspension.
Even if you are the master and can ride CBC fully rigid with canti-crap brakes the poop in your pants at the end would still be funny.

Get off the tow path.

Lid has a very good point. All these sweeping statements should begin with "where I live..."

Your address means a lot in this discussion. You'd look like an idiot on a Cove downhill bike here in Florida, but you'd be in traction if you rode my rigid singlespeed EWR in BC.

 

[CAPIN]

People designing bikes didnt sleep last 15 years.

Look at xc racing.
Take Cannondale F3000 that volvo team raced in 1995
catalogue says 10.4kg
Compare it with top version of 2010 FLASH hardtail.
7.3kg and thats with 100mm fork, discs etc

Full sus bikes are much lighter aswell, but in reality it translated into them having similar weight as before while being much stronger and with bigger travel.

having said that, i just finished this photostream from INTERBIKE:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37220746@N ... 868108909/
and im disgusted by the multicolor stripes, graphics, huge logos on todays bikes
its unbearable. Almost everybody jumped into this.

 

[tintin40]

I look at the mtbers now and just laugh at with their 6'' of skills correction

There you go tintin, fixed it for you.

Thanks

 

[tintin40]

Then you most certainly don't need any supension in the South East of England (you wimps)

 

[gerryattrick]

Based on the completely objective and unbiased responses it seems the definitive answers to Silverclaws' original questions are:

1. Sometimes
2. It depends

It's great that RBers rarely let the facts get in the way of a good argument.

:roll: :roll:

 

[orange71]

To me a mtb should look like a bike

like a Trimble does :shock:

 

[tintin40]

To me a mtb should look like a bike

like a Trimble does :shock:

i wondered how long it would take for some one to notice that

Well it is rigid

Also a vintage mtb can be made to as light as a modern. Even BITD i saw sub 20lb Roberts

 

[Splatter Paint]

Onza Porcupine II 2.1", kevlar, folding, 590g (actual) £15 each BITD £23 at todays prices accounting for inflation (no pun intended).

Schwalbe Nobby Nic (2010) EVO, 2.1", kevlar, folding 470g (actual) £44.99

Some things have got lighter, they're also a lot more expensive! If somebody in 1990 said that folk would pay £45 for a single bicycle tyre, then you'd think they were mad. You'd be pretty stupid to pay that now really...

SP (Selling Porcs for shirt buttons, paying over the odds for 'race tyres', numpty )

 

[legrandefromage]

Septembers MBR:

Giant Reign 0 £2499 28.3lb

GT Force 1.0 £2299 29.7lb

Kona Abra Cadabra £2399 29.8lb

Marin Attack Trail 6.8 £2299 30.6lb

Trek Remedy 7 £2300 29.3lb

Thats a lot of weight to be carrying round even on a full suss.