Been making some rather nice upgrades to my Giant Anthem and keeping an eye on the weight using our old bathroom scales. I was really pleased to see that the weight was down to 23.5 lb which seemed plausible from weighing the new parts. Scales broke last week and bought a new one with greater accuracy, just weighed again to check and found it was 24.5 lb so a bit disappointed.
Unfortunately the same goes for me! I'm nearly a stone heavier than I thought I was all this time (I'm a big bloke). I've put on a stone this week!! Will I die?
Ah well, back on the salad for a while.
On the plus side, your bike is a bit heavier so more than capable of coping with your extra bit 😉
I did the same with mine when I'd built it. Bathroom scales 29lb, shop scales 31lb 🙁 Still rides nice tho
Digital bathrooms scales do funny things according to the surface they're standing on. They'll read higher if standing on a plush shagpile and lower if on a hard floor. 🙂
IME most scales do under weigh - either that or my own scales over weigh 😕
don't wear a camelbak that will save you a pound
I used to keep the 'scales of justice/reality' to hand in the workshop.Punters would come bouncing in boasting about their 26lb orange 5's and how they lost 4lbs by going tubeless,fitting foam grips and a carbon handlebar.
Apparently our scales were always wrong 🙄
Someone actually brought in the list of components on the bike with weights for each one to 'prove' our digital scales were 2lbs out.
If you're really bothered
The funny thing is that even though the bike is 1 lb heavier and I am 11 lb heavier the bike rides just the same. 😆
I used to keep the 'scales of justice/reality' to hand in the workshop.Punters would come bouncing in boasting about their 26lb orange 5's and how they lost 4lbs by going tubeless,fitting foam grips and a carbon handlebar.
Mine have been referred to as the scales of truth! Surely though it's just as likely that mine/yours over weigh as it is that everyone else's underweigh? Perhaps we should take the median weight or something. Over thinking now admittedly.
recently moved house and, to my amazement, found our EverRight bathroom scales had me down as losing a full stone in just a week 🙂
Imagine my surprise to find, by moving scales to a slightly less bouncy part of the bathroom floor, i'm still hoarding a very similar amount of lard 😉
If you're ever bothered about your bike's weight, get my mate Malcolm to weigh it for you, it'll be miraculously about 20% less on his scales than on anyone else's 😉
Take a dump before you go out. That should make up for it. I can lose a kg that way.
I can lose a kg that way.
On who's scales?
Bike weights get a bit silly, and I'd not want to be hammering a 23lb anthem around my trails as I like to ride 'fun' stuff rather than XC motorways 😉
Something has got to give, to become flexy and less capable, by going super light. Wheels are the obvious place, I'll always make sure I have some good tyres and strong wheels regardless.
My XC bike is about 28lbs and the enduro bike is 33. A happy 33!
I use salter samson electro digital scales, regarded as extremely accurate (I bought them for weighing fish, something that's taken very seriously in the world of angling!).
Njee20,
On my own! sometimes it has been more but a kg is pretty average.
Take a dump before you go out. That should make up for it. I can lose a kg that way.
I'd see a doctor if I was shitting a kilo at a time! 😯
Bike weights get a bit silly, and I'd not want to be hammering a 23lb anthem around my trails as I like to ride 'fun' stuff rather than XC motorways
A 23lb bike now is vastly better than a 23lb bike of yesteryear. A light bike with top end kit is nicer than one built on the cheap too, fewer compromises.
I bought some digital scales a while back, and the "your scales are crap" excuses started, so I fished out the old kitchen scales weights, which agreed exactly with the digital ones.
"Your weights are wrong" wasn't long in coming...
Anthem 22lbs, Pivot 26lbs, both get sent down the Beast, around trail centre jumpy bits etc. The secret is I have no money left 🙂
Strong and light but not cheap.
nealy, I bought some of those scales a few years ago and while seeming reasonably accurate they soon stopped working and no amount of fiddling with batteries would revive them
All my bikes seem to end up around 30lb + or - a pound or so , must weigh my new bike , scales of truth at the LBS, I'm guessing 26lb
I have never weighed any of my bikes but I know the current one is lighter than the old one as it cost a £1k more. It is obviously £1k lighter / better, end of.
I'm with Glasgowdan on this one, if you want your bike weighed accurately find yourself a serious fisherman like a carper or specimen hunter as they have the best scales money can buy ( within reason)
Salter Electro Samsons being tge benchmark in digital accuracy and reliabilty or a nice set of Reuben Heatons will do the job in an old school way.
I have fox Digitals( not THAT fox) permanently hooked up to the roof ( unless I'm fishing) just to see what stuff weighs
Went on a group night ride a while back and folk had been discussing weights, so I brought my Park digital scales. Their's all weighed +30lbs; the guy with the BFe was happy, whereas the one with the Soul wasn't 🙂
I am happy that my bathroom scales always seem to over exaggerate the weight of my bikes.That makes me more of macho riding god when I sail past the lycra clad XC carbon mincers on the climbs on my heavy hardcore steel beast complete with my kilo of poo still inside me,baggies, 3 litre Camelback ,pads and sodden 5 10s.
Then I wake up...
So those super-accurate luggage scales I bought in Poundland are going to let me down? 😥
On a more serious note I have a cheapish ebay set of hanging scales that agree pretty well with my "average of four calculations of me on the bathroom scales on a non-lumpy part of the garage floor holdingthe bike, minus just me on the bathroom scales on a non-lumpy part of the garage floor."
Oh, and I'm low-carbing, so I can't shit a kilo. A Malteser every three days is more of a target right now.
Had the same disappointment with my ST4, 29.5lbs.
Sold the frame on.
It sounds like you're on your way, yeah.I've put on a stone this week!! Will I die?
I rebuilt my road bike last weekend after it's usual winter strip & clean.
Was mortified when it went on the bike shop digital weight gauge and showed 17.04lb. I need to lose 0.05lb to get it under 17lb...
Might have to replace the bottle cage with a carbon one... 😉
Change the air in your tyres for something lighter?I need to lose 0.05lb to get it under 17lb
Change the air in your tyres for something lighter?
How about Helium?
I discovered my bike to weight 22lbs by googling and adding all the component / frame weights.
*shrugs*
why do you care again?
My Anthem weighs about 26lb, nice sensible build with no carbon to break. My Enduro however weighs about 34lbs...a brute
Kryton, that rarely works out!
Unless you are looking to put the bike on a diet, there's little but disappointment and a new obsession to be gained from weighing it.
Having said that I was actually quite pleased with my Mmmbop at 25lbs and 5oz on my mates Park Tools scales, and that was with fat Minions and High Rollers. My mate who's scales they were was less pleased with his 28lbs Stumpy though 🙂
Funnily enough I asked my LBS to stick my Yeti ASR5 alloy on the scales at the weekend, just been built from what I believe to be reasonably light components (xt all round, Thomson stem and seat post, carbon bars etc) so was expecting it to come in around 12kg (26.5lbs)
Was surprised when it weighed in at 13kg (28.5lbs)....
Still rides great though 😀
Mrblobby, are you daring to suggest the marketeers may have rounded down...? 😉
I weighed the heckler before I began lightening it. Keep an eye on it but it ranges from 32 to 38 depending on what I'm doing. Not that bothered really.
Kryton, definitely not, just that grease and lube must be a lot heavier than you think 🙂
My Anthem is 22.5lbs. Nothing too drastic, quite a lot of KCNC stuff, but the Hope Pro3/Crests are a bit flexy.
Weighted the Motolite the other week was more out of curiosity than anything else was quiet surprised when it came in at 26.6lbs had thought it may have been around 25lb but then it is a large. Still rides nicely and does everything I want it to do so can't complain.
My rigid singlespeed is 26lbs,
It rides as good after as it did before I weighed it.
I'm not going to let a digital screen tell me my bikes not right.
My Horsethief was approx 13.9kg on our vaguely accurate luggage scales, no idea what it'd be on a set of Park scales though. Was reasonable pleased with that considering it's got heavy (900g) tyres on it.
There have been quotes on other forums of sub 20lbs Anthems, I suspect they are using scales that are even more optimistic than mine was. I'm now happy with 24.5lbs, I enjoyed spending a bit of money on nice components - a lot of it came off the rotating mass esp the wheels, and its a really sprightly and responsive bike now.
My Anthem weighs 24.5 lb too. That`s a perfectly accetable weight.Mine rides very nicely and with fatter 9heavier) rubber on it works as a sub 25lb trail bike too.
I`d imagine a sub 24lb Anthem is pretty hard to achieve without spending some serious money.
Mrblobby, are you daring to suggest the marketeers may have rounded down...?
Compound error, and missing out the odd bit does seem to mean that's a really inaccurate way of doing it. I don't quite understand why though 😕
I`d imagine a sub 24lb Anthem is pretty hard to achieve without spending some serious money.
They do seem strangely heavy - a couple of years ago several friends had the Anthem Advanced 1 (IIRC), XT, Crossmax SLRs, carbon bits, nice bikes. They were nearly 25lbs stock. Even a friend who'd fitted 1x10, Stan's wheels, alu bolts etc, only got it to 23.5lbs. Still ride well though clearly, very popular!
The frame though is competive,IIRC lighter than an Epic.
The carbon version though is scarcely lighter than the Alumminium version.
I think it`s probably more to do with the heavy finishing kit and component spec that most of the standard ones have. And the huge stack of spacers and conical spacers they stick on them! 😀
Even so I can`t imagine many are near the 22lb weights I have seen claimed.
My niner weighs 17lbs, I have now stopped ferkin around with it and will get on and ride it propers like.
Looks sexy mind.