Originally Posted by FBinNY

I stopped reading at that point because I don't care about your bike's weight, or any other, including mine for that matter.

However, I thought I'd let you in on a little secret about digital scales. Most (non-scientific) digital scales have resolutions much finer than the actual reading capability of the measuring element. So, while the 0.1# resolution is very comforting, it doesn't imply actual accuracy anywhere near that.

This makes a problem because people reweigh stuff to check and the scale makers would get nasty letters. To avoid that they sneak in a logic chip, which retains the first result, and snaps anything close back to that. The reading will only change when the difference is greater than a preset trigger or after a set time interval.

I post this only to counter the myth that digital stuff is more accurate than analog. In most cases of comparable quality the opposite is true.