Originally Posted by
john m flores
The weight I posted includes the bottom bracket, which is maybe half a pound, meaning the frame itself is ~4.75 lbs
For comparison, a budget steel gravel frame
and fork from State Bicycle is 4130 chromoly steel and ~6.129 lbs. $479
Thanks for weighing the frame, John. I've wondered for a long time about the quality of aluminum used in Walmart frames.
Allowing half a pound for the BB seems to be accurate. (Found the weight of a Shimano UN72, probably higher quality and so maybe a bit lighter: 0.49 pounds.)
So the Ozark Trail frame is around the weight of a medium-sized double-butted chro-moly bare frame (around 4 to 4.85 pounds, per a search).
Probably unbutted heat-treated aluminum, then.
Likely better quality than the cheapest Kent and equivalent aluminum Walmart bikes, which I suspect have frames made of unbutted, un-heat-treated aluminum, in which case the lack of strength would be compensated for by the use of very thick-walled aluminum tubes.