I guess maybe there is that much of a difference in the frames.. doesn't sound like you've "weight weenied" much else
Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
a Univega probably came with a pound of paint on it.
Older racing bicycles often get a single light coat of paint to shave off a little weight....
actually, it's got a "smoked chrome" finish.. bunch of pics posted one page back
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...1#post14845868 It used to have clearcoat on top of the chrome but that went along with the auto body paint the previous owner covered the frame in
A lot of triple butted tubing has rather thick walls and is relatively heavy... it came in many grades so that does not mean the tubeset on the Univega is light. The quad butted mtb tubes on my Kuwahara Cascade are touring worthy while the 022 Ishiwata quad butted tubes are crazy light.
they are definitely lighter than the Tange Infinity MTB and Tange MTB tubes of my other mtbs.. Univega started using Prestige MTB tubing a year or two after mine was produced.. I'm guessing this is somewhere in between.