Foo - All bikes are 40 pounds. A 40 pound bike doesn't need a lock. A 15 pound bike needs 2

All bikes are 40 pounds. A 40 pound bike doesn't need a lock. A 15 pound bike needs 25 pounds of locks.

Observe:
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/bank.jpg
bike weight guesstimated at 25 pounds....lock and chain at 15, equals a 40 pound bike

Big blue is smart and uses a lighter U lock, mebbe 7.5 lbs
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/bigblue.jpg
However, big blue eats junk food and weighs about 32.5 pounds, most of it in ugly bar tapes. Hence, again, we have ourselves a 40 pound bike on our hands.

your estimates, as well as your 40lb rule, suck....

However, big blue eats junk food and weighs about 32.5 pounds, most of it in ugly bar tapes. Hence, again, we have ourselves a 40 pound bike on our hands.
cheezits?
nom nom nom

You don't need no bike lock in Chester pal.

cheezits?
nom nom nom

exactly:D

You don't need no bike lock in Chester pal.

tell me about it
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I mean, tellmeaboudit

your estimates, as well as your 40lb rule, suck....
yeah yeah...c'mon, work with me here:lol:

You don't need no bike lock in Chester pal.

Cause no one rides a bike?

There have been attempts to question - nay, to illegitimize the veracity of my claims as to the perpetual truth of constancy in bike weight. Hence i offer yet another example of this sublime law of nature. behold:

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/0731081408.jpg

Jungle girl here would weigh a good 40 pounds on her best day, rolled straight out the Nottingham factory from whenst she came. But naysayers would have us believe otherwise. Let us be generous and give them their say for the time being.
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/0731081408a.jpg

True, the lock required for poor worthless bikes like this do not weigh nearly so much as those seen on her sleeker brethren above; and yet,note the several small friends she has picked up along her urban treks. Do they not also add to the total weight? "but surely" say those rebukers "an Elephant, Rhino and hippo can only weigh so much, best beloved!" Again, I implore, let us show lenience and cede this point. But look more closely:
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/0731081408b.jpg
Does not the common penguin in and of itself weigh somewhere in the vicinity of 40 pounds? I believe it must.
If the giraffe and the great cats of our world do not add to the total heft, certainly 10 coats of zebra striped and leopard spotted paint do.
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/0731081409.jpg

I rest my case...

Not to mention the spoke-giraffe and the rust.

wow, that last one took a lot outta me. This one will be shorter:
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/duracysqd.jpg
very cool vintage bike belonging to famous messenger. more here (http://www.bikecult.com/works/archive.html)

PS: with lock, 40 lbs.

Not to mention the spoke-giraffe and the rust.
yes

I Thank you!:)

I :lol: at this thread. I offer this in defense of pgoat.

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk77/UnsafeAlpine/Bikes/P6130009.jpg

always wanted one of these...they change colors every year, as you know. I liked the BRown (pic from 2001).
http://www.bikecult.com/works/archive.html
This was often parked near a really good baked potato truck....maybe it should be in ehidle's tater thread.

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/boss.jpg

It always bothered me that their chain was so loose...i may have left a note complaining about this with blue cheese potato dressing on it for the owner....


Oh, yeah...I'm pretty sure the bike and the lock weighed together would give us something in the neighborhood of like exactly 40 lbs.

I :lol: at this thread. I offer this in defense of pgoat.

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk77/UnsafeAlpine/Bikes/P6130009.jpg

heh....I do thank you, but that may weigh 40 lbs without the baskets:D

Is that mom's bike?

heh....I do thank you, but that may weigh 40 lbs without the baskets:D

Is that mom's bike?

That's "The Rig." Rear baskets are big enough to hold a mandolin case. :D Also holds 3 packed-to-the-gills grocery bags.

Dude.. Wait.. What?

finally another favorite of mine, especially for x136, who inspired this thread.
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/paramount6501985.jpg
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/paramount650drive.jpg
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/paramount650front2.jpg
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/paramount650rside.jpg

I dunno why, I just love this so much...I do like blorange bikes.:)
Pics are from many yrs ago but I still see the young lady who rides this thing messengering around Chelsea on occasion...it looks about the same, exceptn' maybe a plastic fender on rear now.

this bike doesn't look to weigh 40 pounds but just the heaviosity of my covetous staring at lends sufficient gravity to increase its weight by a conservative estimate of 83%. By my laborious calculations I claim with great confidence this would place Lady Blorange at 640 oz.; that is, to say, 40 lbs.

I have lots of my own sloppy bikes (all weighing in at 40 lbs.), and am putting pics of them in my profile page album if anyone actually wants to see. extra effort on your part, but bonus is there will be none of my stupid captions to read.:o

That's "The Rig." Rear baskets are big enough to hold a mandolin case. :D Also holds 3 packed-to-the-gills grocery bags.

Are those the Wald baskets, really heavy duty? I had a bike with the same setup front and rear (oh good god, we really are separated at birth:eek:)

I used to do month's worth of food shopping, huge loads of library books, gardening (that thing hauled big 40 lb bags of topsoil!), etc. Great baskets.

I :lol: at this thread. I offer this in defense of pgoat.

http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk77/UnsafeAlpine/Bikes/P6130009.jpg
That looks a lot like my Raleigh

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e341/Doohickie/Bicycle08/Picture164.jpg

Wald baskets FTW!

Are those the Wald baskets, really heavy duty? I had a bike with the same setup front and rear (oh good god, we really are separated at birth:eek:)

I used to do month's worth of food shopping, huge loads of library books, gardening (that thing hauled big 40 lb bags of topsoil!), etc. Great baskets.

Wald, like a tank! I have some Raleigh fenders that I added. I picked them up for 8 bucks, so who cares if the color and and names don't match. ;)

Bikes like those are wonderful.

Richard Ballantine in his books always advocates having a fleet of bikes for every purpose, according to one's needs and pocket book. I had a small but efficient collection yrs ago and it was so great. If we ever move and have a garage again I'm so getting a old basket bearer like these again.:D

My rig is getting a SA 3 speed that I'm building up. She's gonna be frankensteined out...

That looks a lot like my Raleigh

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e341/Doohickie/Bicycle08/Picture164.jpg

Wald baskets FTW!

I just realized you are actually using the pump pegs - now that is old school:thumb:

My rig is getting a SA 3 speed that I'm building up. She's gonna be frankensteined out...

cool. like me, you must be all over Sheldon Brown's pages on SA.

unlike me, you probably actually comprehend them!

cool. you must be all over Sheldon Brown's pages on SA.

oh hell yeah. I rebuilt it using his site. :thumb:

That's so cool...I figured, if you can tear down a plane engine, a planetary sun thingy shouldn't be an issue....

I could barely work the oil port on those things. My wife and I would take days trying to adjust the shifter cable and wind up going out to get drunk instead out of frustration:lol:

finally another favorite of mine, especially for x136, who inspired this thread.
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/paramount6501985.jpg*notices the "Paramount" decal on the top tube, scratches his head*

There's something about those Spinergy death wheels that really makes a rat bike. Makes the bike look like, were it anthropomorphized, it would kill you, but it would kill you in bike form as well.

Next thread: How many pounds of tools does it take to steal any of them?

Those big, square-section chains look like they'd need nothing short of a portable angle-grinder to cut through.

I believe the chains survive all the major bike mag tests...they'd defeat the locks first. When I had to leave my bike outside work I'd either use a chain/lock and a second U lock (both top of the line Kryptonite) or at least the big chain with two padlocks. This way, they had to either break the chain or go through two locks. I was riding either one of these, so not a huge theft incentive:

http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/DSCF0036.jpg
http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii132/pgoat/cycling/DSCF0007-1.jpg
The miyata was my favorite bike, ever. it had lots of campy frankensteined onto it, so odd that it never got messed with....I guess it looked fd up enough that no one thought to come near enough to notice

it really helps to lock the bike up to a gas meter or gas pipe :innocent:

A lot of these bikes, if locked in Austin (especially UT area) with those beefy chains would be a chain, one wheel and a frame in 5-10 minutes. Maybe forkless too, if the bike had a threadless steerer. Perhaps seatless.

The chain lock is great, but it does not take any time for a thief to pull up, flip the QR off a front or back wheel, chuck the wheel in a car, and drive off.

This I see firsthand often when near that campus, especially bikes where the seat and seatpost vanish. Moral of the story: Lock both wheels, or even better, grab some locking skewers.

it really helps to lock yourself up to a gas meter or gas pipe :innocent:

fify

http://www.realclearsports.com/blog/virtual%20hug.jpg

I use a lock made of compressed helium.

I use a lock made of human hair.

fifjshrr

17.6 lbs.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41E2NPJT4XL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

17.6 lbs.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41E2NPJT4XL._SL500_AA280_.jpg

Is that fully charged? Electricity weighs a ton.

Is that fully charged? Electricity weighs a ton.

I don't know. :(

Last time I tried to weigh electricity it was accompanied by bowel discharge, ruining the accuracy.

probably did not do the scale any good either.

Is that fully charged? Electricity weighs a ton.

if that was a bike, the electricity needed would weigh exactly 22.4 lbs

if that was a bike, the electricity needed would weigh exactly 22.4 lbs

then how would you lock it up if it was fully charged?

then how would you lock it up if it was fully charged?

by the rules, you wouldn't need to.

then how would you lock it up if it was fully charged?

That's the point: Built-in theft deterrent, forensic evidence of theft attempts left at scene. :thumb:

So if I strap a 25 weight plate to my 15 lb. weight weinie bike, it becomes theft proof?

So if I strap a 25 weight plate to my 15 lb. weight weinie bike, it becomes theft proof?

yes

You'll get a hernia doing that, the bike stays home unridden, voila! No locking/theft issues