Originally Posted by
rekmeyata
I don't have any modern light weight bikes, all my bikes are lugged steel jobs with no carbon fiber parts, my lightest is a all factory original 88 Fuji Club Sport, and with the cage it weighs 20.6 pounds, which is not what the catalog said it would weigh at 23 pounds. I doubled checked the weight with one at a bike shop. Not sure why the weight difference, but it's there.
Did the catalogue just give one weight with a notation that it was for a particular size, or did it list weights for each size?
Originally Posted by
safariofthemind
10 lbs difference in weight is a 3.3 per cent delta on 300 lbs combined rider+bike+load on a touring bike. Though it is interesting, it's not as materially different as the rider's shape and the gearing of your bike.
Is this new stat-speak designed to make the rest of us feel inadequate in our education?