Road Cycling - Bike weight

I bought a 1980s Holdsworth frame earlier this year it's made from Reynolds 531 tubing. I built the bike up and it runs like a dream.
The final weight of the complete bike is 22 1/2 lbs. Is this a good weight? How does it compare to road bikes in general? What do your bikes weigh so I can get a comparison?

Sounds like a good weight to me, if you’re not racing, you really won’t notice much of a difference. My bike weighs ~17lbs, but it almost feels too fragile for me to use as my daily ride.

Really Joe? So would this also be true with say.... a TREK 5200!?
I thought that light bikes were also pretty strong too. Maybe you were just refering to the way it "felt". It would be a shame for such wonderful bikes (and expensive;) ) to be only used for racing. BTW, what kind of bike do you have?

If you want to spend the money,you can get to 15 pounds easy enough with alot of todays frames and they won' be fragile unless you are a Hoss. Nothing delicate about a Trek OCLV either.22 pounds is ok for old school.

Originally posted by kewlrunningz
Really Joe? So would this also be true with say.... a TREK 5200!?
I thought that light bikes were also pretty strong too. Maybe you were just refering to the way it "felt". It would be a shame for such wonderful bikes (and expensive;) ) to be only used for racing. BTW, what kind of bike do you have?

I had the same question running around in my head a few months back. But, I've learned that light bikes can be very strong, depending on construction. My bike has proven the strength is there, at just under 17lbs. Ti & Carbon, designed for strong larger framed riders which is what I am. It took me a few rides to find the confidence, and I found it.

I don't have any of these new exotic tubings just an old 653 reynolds road race but boy is it a light frame. The whole bike weighs about 18 Ibs but I choose accessories carefully to minimise weight.

I am not sure I'd want to use this on a daily commuting basis although I have used it for pretty much everything including given it a good bashing on some rough audaxes so it would probably put up with it ok.
I have several bikes so have stuck with sora sti 8 spd for compatibility what do you guys use 9 -10 spd ?

You could use a 531 bike for everday commuting with no fear.
Most very lightweight bikes can take the stress of a rider and rough roads, but try dropping one against a lamp-post or the corner of a building, or wait for somone to throw their crappy junk bike against yours. Ultra-lights cant take too much of that abuse.

Originally posted by kewlrunningz
I thought that light bikes were also pretty strong too. Maybe you were just refering to the way it "felt". It would be a shame for such wonderful bikes (and expensive;) ) to be only used for racing. BTW, what kind of bike do you have?

I know the bike is a strong bike, it just FEELs fragile to me. I'm use to a 32 pound full suspension mnt bike, not a sub 17 pound road bike. I don't hold back when it comes to riding my road bike, last week i bunny hopped a snake laying in the road I would guess 6" high, but well over 10' in length (the hop, not the snake)... I know it cant be good for the bike, but that didn't stop me from flying down one of the local hills the same day at 45mph :)

I ride a Klein Quantum Race, full dura-ace, rolf vector pro wheels.

Originally posted by Yusuf
I bought a 1980s Holdsworth frame earlier this year it's made from Reynolds 531 tubing. I built the bike up and it runs like a dream.
The final weight of the complete bike is 22 1/2 lbs. Is this a good weight? How does it compare to road bikes in general? What do your bikes weigh so I can get a comparison?
You have a "classic" 22.5 is a respectable weight for an 80's bike.
Now, details please, what campy Nuovo record components
(or super) are you going to run on it? model? etc. etc.
I have a 22 lb 1985 Trek and a 20 lb Serotta
Both are 531 and I love the ride.
Steel is real as they say.

Marty

22.5 pounds sounds fine for that type of frameset. I can't give a precise weight for my "road" bike since my good scale got broken a while back, but I'd guess it's somewhere in that vincinity with all the fenders and racks removed (it's a Cannondale touring bike with a medium-weight set of road-racing/training wheels and 700 x 23 Continental tires).

My old Fuji Team, which had a light TIG-welded Ritchey Logic Super Prestige steel frame, got as low as 17.5 pounds back when it had some crazy all-carbon Zipp 440 tubulars on it, and I did rampage around in traffic on it... what a blast! It sure did pick up speed nicely from a standing stop... :) But in the end it was more practical to run my plain old clinchers, despite a bit more weight.

My road bike weighs in about 18.5 lbs...

Light is great, but really isn't all that important for most of the riding I do. My cyclocross bike weighs about 20-21 lbs, which is noticeably more than my road bike and noticeably less than my buddy Enrico's bike -- a 1997 Marinoni Squadra of Columbus Brain. Enrico still kicks my ass on every sprint and climb we do.

Thanks for the replies it was interesting.
The bikes weight is not a problem. It does everything I want from it. I was just curious as to how it compared with other rider's bikes.
I ride mostly just because I love to ride and also for fitness. Usually about 30 - 40 miles a day on average. I weigh,at present 168 lbs and over the next months plan to shed around another 16 lbs. So I shall reap the benifits of less weight without having to worry about taking it off the bike.
The bike is rigged out with Shimano Sora group set apart from the chainset which is a Sistar alloy double 40/52. The cassette is 13/23. TM stem and bars. Kalloy seat post that carries a Selle SMP saddle, (cheap but comfy). The wheels are Rigida alloy rims on nameless hubs, front weighs 3.5 lbs, back 4.5 lbs. Breaks are alloy double pull, also nameless. All the bits are second hand and cost around £60. The frame was £57.
I plan to keep the bike at least until next spring when I might, just might, get a newer frame and put all the present gear on that. Though I would miss those gorgeous chrome forks that finish off a good looking bike but would look out of place on a more modern frame.