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Just weighed our beinn small 20 and with conti mtb tyres its 9.5kg so id guess that the stated weight of the 24 at 8.82kg is very optimistic
My lad has been testing out his new 'snotter' it's an ASDA/Wherever special, a hand me down from my sister, just to keep him going until Xmas when Santa will being him his new bike.
He loves the gears, loves the suspension and is more than happy with his big heavy donkey lol.
Interesting on some of the weights.
Trying to get a decent quote for posting his Ridgeback MX16 now. Paisley Freight are currently winning at £22.50 (which is more than I budgeted for ! But I did get a decent price for the bike)
The Scott Scale 24" we have is 12.25kg, which I'm guessing is stock, however I bought it used so I can't be sure.
Bars and post look good places to save a fair amount of weight too.
The Islabikes are light-ish but a Beinn 24 certainly isn't 8.82kg. I just made youngest his first 26er with my own custom steel frame - it was more than a pound [u]lighter[/u] than the 24" Beinn (both bikes weighed on same scale - that was 26" wheels, discs and a sus fork).
In fairness the 26 wheels cost the same as an Islabike but he'll be using them for a lot of years (they'll get swapped onto bigger bikes).