So last Thursday I was feeling especially sluggish on my commute home. I was on my "winter commuter" - a 1979 Trek "sport tourer". Since I was planning on weighing my road bike that evening, I already had the bike scale out. Now, as I said this is my winter commuter so it's wearing fenders, rear rack, Road Morph G pump, NR Lumina front light, Dinotte Quad Red and NR Solas rear lights, Spoke Lights (front and rear), and about half a bottle of water. In the trunk bag (Topeak MTX DXP - the one with the fold out panniers and rear water bottle pouch) it was carrying a typical commuting load (e.g., wallet, phone, base layer and gloves from the morning commute, shirt/socks/underwear from that day, wristwatch/wedding ring, empty plastic sandwich container, etc.), plus a couple of tubes, patch kit, CO2 canisters, etc.

Hoisted it onto the bike scale and was shocked to read it weighed over 39 pounds. The trunk bag alone was over 9 pounds. Now, I've never been a weight weenie, but this really surprised me. For curiosity I decided to weigh my other main commuter - a fixed gear IRO outfitted with a Arkel seatpost rack and lightweight trunk bag, no fenders, mini pump. With the bag empty (but the tools/tubes, etc in a separate water bottle cage) and without lights, the IRO weighed just over 26 pounds. No wonder it feels much more lively on my commutes.

So, it got me curious, what do other folks' commuter rigs weigh?

BTW - the time difference between the two bikes for the commute (assuming the same weather - rain and high winds slow me down regardless) is only a few minutes on a 15 mile/~1 hour commute; but I guess that's a discussion for a separate post.