Originally Posted by
Retro Grouch
Sometimes I feel like a analogue guy who has been trapped in a digital world.
The nice thing about an aluminum framed bike is they are lighter than steel. That's something any fool quantify at home on their bathroom scale.
I found two low-end aluminum mtb's in the trash. One, a Trek 3500, is my main around-town and rain bike. It weighs 28 lbs. The other, a dept. store no-name, was configured the same as the Trek except with front AND rear shocks - fake high tech. It weighed more than 30 lbs. Hard to believe that an aluminum bike could weigh more than some all-steel relics from the seventies. You'd think that bike had lead hidden in it somewhere. In contrast, my steel-framed, straight-tubing Raleigh FG weighs 24 lbs.