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Prompted by the proximity of a pair of bathroom scales next to the Elephant Bike (which now proudly bears a Hart's Cyclery-installed dynamo) I have weighed it.
Unladen, but ready to ride, it came in at 27kg. This explains why Craighouse Hill can sometimes be hard work...
Is this a competition?
Yeah, but only for bikes with one seat. Bikes (or other monstrous contraptions) that carry multiple people or other bicycles (or both) don't count.
My competition, my rules :-)
Arellcat will need to enter quickly, before I modify the rules to exclude cycles with more than two wheels and/or red fairings.
Wow.
That's possibly heavier than all my bikes put together...
Are we allowed to leave the pannier on with the normal level of stuff that accumulates in it?
I'm in an unspoken, rarely acknowledged but definitely a thing, annual 'who can ride the furthest' competition on Strava with a friend of mine down south.
I am currently winning by approx 500km, but as he points out on the odd occasion it is mentioned, he is ridding a YubaMundo cargo bike which is 34kgs and thats before he puts his Westie on the back.
However when comparing rider plus bike weights I think we're about the same, as I've seen more fat on a matchstick.
My official entry will be my LEL bike which weighed in at 12kg fully loaded (excluding water), which was pretty pleasing.
Had I been allowed submit my tandem it would have been 24kg (+11kg for the tag-along (ignoring passengers) or +38kg for the trailer laden with 2 bikes) but it's not allowed in the competition so I won't mention it.
@sallyhinch - I think that including panniers with all the usual detritus that sits in them (mine currently includes a defunct Blackberry mobile that's been there for six months) depends on your definition of 'unladen'.
My definition of 'unladen' is without panniers. We may need to go to arbitration about whether that definition is acceptable.
I last weighed my stuff on 2012-02-07, when I still had an aluminium bicycle, but still managed 12kg of bike and 13kg of bags on a normal day with a few bits of shopping on the way home.
I regret participating in this thread. Just lifted the Surly up with a luggage scale. Pump, lock & lights on board but no panniers: 17.45kg???
God knows what it weighs when I'm hauling work stuff, changes of clothes, random books etc. about the town.
@ Unhurt - you have luggage scales ? Can I make an appointment pls. I've always wondered how much the CX weighs.
Yes you may. Or I can bring them to you - they're only wee. Maybe a middle class market handover?
buy second hand titanium frame / panniers off ebay and only eat a couple of bananas for sustenance during the day
problem rapidly solved
Hold up, now I like this thread. Just realised I have a cast-iron (almost literally...) excuse for being the slowest ever uphill.
@Greenroofer: This explains why Craighouse Hill can sometimes be hard work...
SOMETIMES?
Arellcat will need to enter quickly, before I modify the rules to exclude cycles with more than two wheels and/or red fairings.
You can modify your rules whenever you see fit. They're your rules!
The torpedo weighs 74lbs (33.6kg) right now, in what I would say is its unladen state without water bottle or luggage or locks, but including the bag that is always present, containing tools and pump.
I won't join Strava. I won't time a ride. I won't weigh my bike.
@IWRATS - a noble sentiment, but aren't you ever tempted by the dark side, by that nagging question, by that gentle wondering, about how much it weighs?
Like emissions from a VW my bikes always seem to weigh more than the marketing material suggested.
Billy Connolly: “Never trust a man who when left alone with a tea cosy doesn’t try it on.”
Greenroofer: "Never trust a cyclist who when left alone with scales doesn't weigh their bike"
that gentle wondering, about how much it weighs?
Well, I tell you what - every time I strip the components and furniture off the bike I'm always astonished at how light the frame feels in my hands.
Thing is with cycling my ideal is for everything to vanish apart from my awareness of my physical self and the landscape. Thinking about speed and even putting the ride into the context of a pattern of cycling hinders that for me so I try not to.
Back in the day I did run to a training grid, I just come at bicycles from a different angle.
@Stickman
We've only met briefly but I reckon you already know the IWRATSian approach to tea cosies.
Plus ca change:
Edward Ward Cooper, a company employee, described in his autobiography the arrival, "in the sacred precincts of the office a "thing" from France...we all gather round. Mr Turner, our manager, "Ole Starley" the mechanical genius, myself and a few awe-struck officials...yes there the thing stood; no one ventured to touch it. When Starley first did touch it, he lifted it up and complained about the weight".
James Starley's first impression of a velocipede. He would develop it into the modern safety bicycle. From It's All About the Bike by Robert Penn
My Pashley with trailer (which is how I mostly ride it must be over 30kg.
At the other end of the scale my Cervelo was weighed at 6.8kg by the shop when they fitted a groupset (not at my request, they just wondered).
I was quite surprised when checking in my Brompton to find that it + basket + protective coat + Brompton burka weighed about 16 kg https://cityexile.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/travels-with-my-brompton-part-2/
My leccy bike is about 27kg with battery. Which isn't bad for a leccy but I'd not want to carry her up stairs too often.
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