Originally Posted by
chaadster
The Roll Elite is a cool style, but it’s $900. The regular Roll is priced right at $535, but its massively heavy at 30.6lbs in Small and without fenders, rack, chainguard or anything. Weight isn’t important if you don’t have to climb hills or carry the bike up into the house, into an apartment or hoist it up onto a car rack, but it’s worth being aware of weight to match it to your needs.
This past November I got a $699 step-thru Public C9 Aluminum for my wife, which is just 25lbs (also w/o fenders/rackchainguard). I’m sure fitted with a rack and shopping basket it would still be well under 30lbs.
https://publicbikes.com/collections/...ucts/public-c9
Massively heavy, no. Compared to a lot of the crap out there in a slightly similar category it is quite light. Sure you could built it lighter but for something really comfortable, upright and not using older technology it is pretty solid. Yes it does cost a bit more but it has disc brakes for excellent stopping and skips the cheap quill stems and goes to a threadless system and has a much more comfort designed riding position.
That is probably the nicest Public I have seen but really only because it doesn't have the tourney or altus derailleur. The 25lbs I doubt but I haven't weighed one on a scale and I haven't put the newer roll elite on a scale either and if you are reading manufacturers listed weights you aren't getting any accuracy and usually the lightest number they can come up with skipping parts like pedals and things like that.