[Closed] who has the lightest bike on stw? and vise versa

Fizzer. 21.5 pounds I think. I could balance it on a semi.

have a look at lightbike.com... some crazy stuff on there... they are mostly customized without a triple crank, but are quite impressive!

www.lightbike.com

No road bikes or single speeds eh?

who has the lightest bike on stw? and vise versa

I have the lightest stw on bike....

its this one

http://www.light-bikes.com/

barry i mean heavyist duh.

I think what'd be interesting is the lightest bike belonging to the heaviest person.

Im 15.5st and ride a 24lb 5" hardtail, and a 23lb-ish 4x bike.
Thats almost 10lb of me for every lb of bike.

surely in any bike:body weight ratio contest Ton would win without trying?

Mountainbike 29.2lb with (burgtechs and tubes adding a good 2.5lb there!)

BMX 29.2lb (realy should put this on a diet at some point)

I built this for SSUK08 and it was 17lbs. This year I took the gears of my anthem and it was 21lbs.

Seems to work- it wasn't skittish, was very very fast uphills and capable downhills. I was leading for a while but I lost some air in the rear tyre and so finished 4th- both years I've finished 4th in fact. And it seems every other result I got this year was 4th. Maybe if I built a 14lb bike I'd win...

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Some really daftly specced bikes on that site. 🙄

Why put canti brakes on a Scott Genius?

my daughter, 14lb

22.42 and I still can't ride for toffees 🙄

Pretty sure it's me
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17.2lbs exactly.

what? for the table and chair set? the pitch must be more like 28 lbs...?

ROFLMAO!

must just be my pitch frame that weighs a ton then getit? ton ahahaha

Dougal's is 20.5lbs for a bouncy bike IIRC, mine is a around 21lbs depending on tyres etc.

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ss & ridgid Klein Attitude 20lb 3oz.

To be fair that is without any significant expenditure to lighten it and some frankly innapropriate choices of bits for a 'light bike' (including hope bulb front hub, cheap inners, old 4pot xt disk brake).

...and I'm about 12.5 st

Semi what Dave???

20.9 actually.

I have a Merida FLX (can't recll the number - 5000? - ) that was one down from the Team Bike in 2008. About 22lbs. Only difference I think was XTR / Sram kit. £4k new.

It's going on eBay this weekend as I don't ride it much as I seem to have been bitten by the 29er bug!
Tim

mines 21lb but its non bouncy at the back and has a stupid saddle on it- brooks need to get on the case of a light saddle ....

I weighed my Giant Xtc at the w/end to 22lbs. Loads of places to lose more weight quite easily, like changing the LX tripple crankset !

Kev

And what is your bike Fizzer?

No one done road bikes yet?! Chap at work had a 12.5lb 62cm Spesh Roubaix, he couldn't ride it, but it looked good on the scales, stupid!

My new XC Carbon weighs in at over 24 lbs. Excuse me for thinking that some folk need new scales.

My XL Ti456 is 24lb, my Blur 28lb......

I saved 8lb in 3 weeks by cutting out the toast and butter. How much would that cost me in racy carbon bike bling hmmm?

I'm happy to have anyone weigh my bike, and I weighed Dougals, so arguably it's a comparative weight! But having weighed literally hundreds of bikes I'm confident they're accurate.

Having seen your Blur XCc I can point out where mine's lighter though Druid, if you're bothered!

I thought people gave up trying to make their bikes light at the turn of the century. Do you lot have anodised purple bottle cage bolts too?

My new XC Carbon weighs in at over 24 lbs. Excuse me for thinking that some folk need new scales.

Agreed. My Scott genius 20 weighs about 28 lbs.

But having weighed literally hundreds of bikes I'm confident they're accurate.

Not unless those bikes were standardized weights then they're not.

Good point, but what I meant was I've weighed a lot of bikes where people say 'this is 22lbs, I've already weighed it' and its actually 25! Maybe they just overweigh things and my Epic is actually 18lbs... Doubtful.

I've never weighed a bike under a claimed weight either!

Njee, I would suggest that means that your scales underweigh slightly less than other people's do.

Accurate scales = thousands of pounds.

Well I've just calculated that there is only 4 pounds of me pushing along each pound of my bike. I think it's time to look for a something a bit lighter for longer rides.

here's the lightweight

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and the heavy hitter 😀

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I believe Njee has the same scales as me - the Alpine Digital ones... Mine are accurate to within 10 grams which i have confirmed.

Id put good money on it that Njee's are just as accurate.

Njee, I would suggest that means that your scales underweigh slightly less than other people's do.

It's possible, but how do you know that? That means the scales that manufacturers use underweigh by even more, what are you using as the bench mark for accuracy?

I have tested them with calibrated weights, and they do seem accurate, but I'm not really that bothered at the end of the day! I'd sooner spend thousands on the bike, than the scales 🙂

I'm just basing it on our experience in buying scales for weighing people at the surgery. To get accurate scales for weighing people costs a fortune, because the engineering needed to get precise measurements needs very fine tolerances, also they have to be calibrated regularly to stay accurate - which in most cases they're not. Similarly calibration weights are also very expensive, and have to be very carefully looked after.

In most cases in GPs surgeries and hospitals, the scales used aren't actually that accurate, because maintaining accurate scales costs a lot of money, and precise measurement isn't needed.

For those reasons, I find it very hard to believe that a set of scales costing £60 are likely to be particularly accurate.

Manufacturers weights are notorious for being on the low side - after all, who's going to tell the truth about being a bit of a porker?

But to put it in perspective, Specialized are going mental about the fact that they've got a 22 lb full suss stumpjumper next year - it's the full carbon top of the range S-works with XX drivetrain and ultra-bling build kit. Scott reckon their Genius Ltd weighs in around 24 lb, that's got carbon hoops, hubs and forks FFS. When I see these weights, then what's been claimed on here for bikes that have heavier frames, and nowhere near as bling componentry, I find it hard to believe.

My Epic has a lighter frame and far more bling componentry than the Stumpjumper or the Genius. I drop nearly a pound in the tyres alone compared to the Stumpy. And it weighs a pound less than the claimed weight for the Stumpjumper. Seems plausible to me...

I'm sure they're not accurate to 0.05g, but they're probably within a hundred grammes or so, they were dead on with a 1kg weight, and like I say, it's interesting as a comparative as much as anything.

njee has a point - just weigh a known quantity of water (say 10-11 litres) and that'l be close enough for this purpose.

Oh - and I know mine could be lighter 😀

njee20 - blinger than SRAM XX? What components have you got on there?

Anthem Advanced weighs 24lb at the moment, but will be lighter as soon as I can afford the wheels I want!
Hardtail hack bike is 28lb, so very lardy!

njee has a point - just weigh a known quantity of water (say 10-11 litres) and that'l be close enough for this purpose.

Just out of interest, how are you going to accurately measure the quantity of water?

Me to (lightest MTB) bike ratio: 5.8:1

Kramer - Member

njee has a point - just weigh a known quantity of water (say 10-11 litres) and that'l be close enough for this purpose.

Just out of interest, how are you going to accurately measure the quantity of water?

By weighing it of course 🙄

LOL.

My downhill bike* about 17 lbs (9.4:1).

Hockey bike* about 12 lbs (13.3:1).

Road bike (actually a bike) at least 25 lbs (6.4:1) with full mudguards, dynamo hub, big pannier thingy.

Joe

*okay these two are unicycles, but they do the job!

What components have you got on there?

You did ask...

S-Works Epic frame and E100 Futureshock fork (3lbs)
S-Works carbon chainset, BB30, 2x9, aluminum bolts (530g, so yes, lighter than XX)
X.0 grip shift, medium cage rear mech with carbon jockey wheels
XTR cassette and e-type front mech without bracket
KMC X9SL chain
Roval Controle SL wheels with Tune skewers
Avid 'Ultimate Mag SL' brakes (Elixir callipers with Ultimate levers)
New Ultimate seatpost (130g), bars (100g) and stem (98g)
Phenom SL saddle
Egg Beater pedals with ti axles
tyres vary, but a Rocket Ron/Furious Fred combo is the lightest I use at 685g
1 foam grip cut in half for Grip Shift, alu bolts in mechs, brake levers etc

Works for me!

There are some really optimistic weights being claimed here - the best by far is grumm with a 17.2lb Spesh Pitch! Amazing. 😯

My Spesh carbon HT with Fox F100x, XTR gruppo,Hope Mini Pro, carbon stem and bars plus Crossmax SL wheels weighs in at just under 21lb

my weight was on a merida FLX 3500 with sids - with all things not necessary removed (rebound adjuster , Pop lock and motion control cartridge) XTR drive train/pedals / xt cranks/brakes , Stans 355s on XC sp 3s and 3 bolt 160 rotors. Rocket Rons evos tubeless , Thomson post and stem with truvativ team carbon bars and SLR 135 saddle

the best by far is grumm with a 17.2lb Spesh Pitch! Amazing.

You're presumably aware he was joking!?

My 2009 Sworks stumpy hardtail is built Similar to njee20 epic and with light tyres its high 17lbs too low 18lbs.My scales are as accurate as most. I reckon it could be lighter but i race the thing and any lighter would only spell problems. You wouldnt want to ride it all day or over real rocky stuff but in an Xc race its great.

You must have some pretty special stuff on that ollie, the HT frame's only about 2lbs lighter than the Epic, you've shaved an extra pound somewhere!

I have a few lighter bits but if i see you at a race i wouldnt mind if you wieghed it on some proper scales

Of course, who are you then!? Email in profile if you want to take this off-forum!

and nowhere near as bling componentry, I find it hard to believe

There's bling and there's light. You can spend £800 on a Mavic wheelset that weighs more than 317s on Hope. Factory wheelsets are generally heavy but they come up all the time on top end 'works edition' bikes.

My Kona Heihei is 21.5lbs - FS with discs 2.0 tyres and a triple chainset. There's weight to come off it though - I want to get another pair of wheels so I can easily switch between mud and dry tubeless tyres - so I'll probably get Stans on American Classic and put the current Stans on XTR as mud wheels. That'll save half a pound for sure. I could swap XTR brakes for Hope Mini SLs, get some lighter pedals and ti bolts to then get it down to 20.5lbs without any compromise in performance. But that'd cost a fortune!

Oh yeah and my Patriot is just over 30lbs - which isn't bad for a 7" bike. Is that the lightest seven incher on STW?

njee20 - that's an impressive list, and it's going to be a light bike.

Me to bike mass ratio (body mass only, not riding gear included) is 8.7:1

I'm just over 16 stone and bike is a 26lb litespeed Niota 5" full bouncer, that could easily go a pound lighter...

Late to the party as always, but here's a pic of my 20.57lb (with race number on) race bike as mentioned by Nick:

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That's probably the best pic I have atm, as I have none of the bike on it's own apart from the initial build which was changed slightly. The weight was verified using a set of calibrated postal scales.

The frame is 3.5lbs (1600g), the weight of a good alloy hardtail. The rest of the kit is light without being silly or German.

6.32:1 on rider:bike ratio, yes, that's right, I weight nothing too.

Druidh - How is the new Blur? Pics? I imagine it's a far more everyday bike than my Koncept.

I'm at 7.41:1 rider:bike ratio, we need someone to bring all these together!

Which suggests my FLX Merida might be lighter.
It's all XTR, top 2 bottom, inc' wheels, it's a HT CF frame, circa 2008. Ti bolts everywhere.
I have it at about 22 - 23 lbs.

I'll have to see if my £85 scales are telling the truth or not.

It might be, but it's a hardtail, it should be!

Jody Crawforth's Merida 96 must be pretty light, that's nicely tarty.

Jody also banjo'd the fork and front wheel on one of it's first rides at a welsh trailcentre.

My bike is about 16 lbs but then again it is a roadbike 😛

I think my mtb weighs 23 lbs but I've swapped all the carbon bits for burly bits till next summer.

I'd love a carbon frame but can't afford to replace it often as I crash alot!

I heard mixed reports on Jody's crash, I thought it happened on the North Downs, when Gareth Montgomerie moved out of the way of a hole too late for Jody to see it! Someone said he trashed the frame and all sorts, but when I spoke to him he said he just bent the fork slightly at the crown/steerer interface.

To be honest, you stuff a bike head on into a hole at high speed it's not going to enjoy it!

I'm sure Gareth said it was Wales, but the rest of the story you have is the same. £400 rim is going to sting though, more so than even a Stans at £70.

Hell yeah!

You seen those Innolite rims? Cheaper than the DTs and 250g. Can you say snap-tastic!

36g 140mm disc rotors too.

You gonna try the rotors then ?

Round (as opposed to the heavier sawtooth) Hope floating rotors for me everytime, anything lighter is just being irresponsible with your health IMO.

The Innolite rims are available under a number of brands, MSC being one. Will stick with the ZTR methinks, two years and they only have a few minor dings in them.

About 150 lbs with me on it, with camelbak 😉

I'm in two minds, part of me wants to try them, but then I fully expect them to be shit, so it's a bit silly to spend the money on them!

fizzer,i also have an s works carbon ht.unfortunately(weight wise),it's got 06 stumpy fsr comp components on it(cannot yet afford to upgrade).so my bike is way heavier than what it can be,(but it still rides great,inc 120mm fox float!!!)

How does it handle the climbs with a 120mm fork? Mine has Sid World Cups at 100mm and I wouldn't want them any longer. Dropped to 85mm for racing.

Once you can afford the new kit the weight should fly off.

You can have a shot of my Scrubs when im down Njee 🙂

hello fizzer,i must admit,that it does feel like it's going to wheelie,if the ascent is steep.i would like to reduce the travel down to 100mm,when i can.in all other respects though,it's great.ps i did phone spesh uk to ask if it was ok to fit the 120mm fork,and they said it would be fine,although it would slow the steering.not that i've noticed though!if i can afford it,i would like some dt swiss 100mm forks.that would be great!!! 😀

Oh your talking serious dosh they're even dearer than the World Cups.

it is shocking how much stuff has risen in price.why can't the government cancel import duty on bike stuff!!!if they are so set on getting people to go green.

racefaceec90 - Member
it is shocking how much stuff has risen in price.why can't the government cancel import duty on bike stuff!!!if they are so set on getting people to go green.

What has cycling to do with being green? If it was about saving the ickle polar bears, they could reduce taxation on bikes as transport, such as proper Dutch style bikes, but why on earth should the tax on my 6" travel all mountain bike be reduced in the name of fluffy ickle bunnies?