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I usually get the LBS to weigh mine when they finish building it.
My singular swift weighs 28.2lbs which, considering its rigid, is quite a lot 😯
Have no idea at all, but I did lift it up and think, "Oh, that's a bit lighter" when I had new forks fitted. So no idea on actuals, but am happy with the experienced weight.
coming from people who probably don't realise the effort involved in getting a truly light bike,
Effort? Building your own frame would be effort, buying a load of expensive bits just requires cash! Unless you are talking about drilling holes in cranks...
coogan - MemberAll up weight gets a bit scary with the tandems. geroutofmyway - or be flattened
Need to catch people up first
Uphill that's dead true, slower than a slow thing going slowly, but on the way down........INCOMINNNNNNNGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!
Will your bike sustain a megavalanche? If not maybe it's not really a mountain bike.
What a crock of sh1t!
I'm confident mine would survive it, they wouldn't be particularly appropriate, but wierdly, light bikes don't fold up at the sight of anything technical!
If I lived in your neck of the woods Juan I'd probably have something burlier, but I don't, so it seems daft! I don't see any need for 6" of travel and 2.5" tyres to ride round here, but that's another argument altogether!
Flux, less than 24 I think. And a steel Mather SS about 20 and cervelo R3SL at about 15 lbs, all with pedals. Me, about 20 lbs (over weight) 😳
Orange 5 26.6lb, I know because of air freighting it, I don't however care!
No idea they are what they are.
However there must be two types of Imperial weighing systems in use. I've got a Frame only Giant XTC built with XT an XTR, light forks flat bars etc, and it's far heavier than the £499 MBR tested hardtails.
Weighting bikes on bathroom scales? I doubt they're accurate to any less than 2lbs either way, FFS!
maths FAIL Peter!
Anyway I am also supercool as don't know and don't care.
oldgit
Don't disagree, but then they remove pedals, cruds, and probably other stuff too - and are often small sizes - plus really, really, really clean.
2005 5spot 28.9lbs
2007 456 SS 24.6lbs
GT Zaskar=21.6 pounds
errrr....this is a metric country now people.
(Apart from km's of course - what a wishy, washy, weeny unit that is for distance)
If you fill the frame tubes and tyres with helium will it weigh less?
My Soul is around 28ish lbs I think (could build it up lighter if I had some spare cash) at the beginning of a ride. At that last evil, long hill at the end it's about 45 lbs. FACT.
I don't see any need for 6" of travel and 2.5" tyres to ride round here, but that's another argument altogether!
Yeah but then you don't have mountains do you?
I have no idea about mine but this thread is making me mildly curious.
All without pedals.
Mojo (FS)- 25.38lbs
Indy Fab Steel Deluxe(HT)- 24.19lbs
Salsa Mamsita (29er HT) - 23.65lbs
Klein Attitude (HT) - 22.96lbs
On One Ti29er (29er HT Rigid SS) - 20.91lbs
My work stand has a digital weight scale in it so they all get weighed as they get finished.
my DB Alpine - with 2-Step Lyriks, relatively light bar/stem combo, Ti saddle, 2.4 tyres and SLX/XT gearing - weighs in a t 14.4kg. that's 31-3/4 lbs. not light, but well'ard.
No idea here too.
Then again, my GP asked me what my weight was recently & I had no clue at that either!
MSC Koncept Carbon (26er FS) - 20.57lbs inc. pedals and a number board.
Not a fan of the calculated weight thing, as it tends to be done by people procrastinating on what will actually win races:- training.
Orange 5 - 14.57kg
2010 Anthem X2 with a few 'tweaks' 24.05lb with pedals.
Calculated weights come out as piffle anyway.
I don't believe them any more than those who reckon they know the weight of their bikes by hefting them and sucking air through their teeth.
Why do people weigh their bike without pedals? Mine got weighed purely out of interest but set ups as it is ridden. i.e. pedals, bottle cages and seat pack.
On my fleabay fishing scales which arnt calibrated (but at these weights does it really matter?) my Pitch weighs a shade over 30lbs and my DMR about 31.5lbs while my road bike comes in at 19lbs.
It might be out a little but I'm not a racer so it doesn't really bother me. The scales are accurate enough to satisfy my curiosity.
Yup, I know that my Orange 5 weighs 28.29lbs, weighed on the calibrated scales at work
calibrated to what accuracy? 😉
my scales are shockingly rubbish. weighing the same bike 3 times can give 28/ 32 /35lbs!
my reckoning is my scandal is 28lbs. (rigid singlspeed)
The question should really be how much do you actually care?
Purely out of curiosity I’ve weighed both my MTBs in the past, using the high accuracy Bathroom scales method:
Solid Acer : 30lbs-ish
DMR Exalt: 36lbs-ish
Beyond that I don’t really give a shit, I’m not going to deliberately try and lighten either bike as that would involve spending money and time, neither of which I seem to have spare these days…
What is the point of list threads like this
Nobody comments on anybody else's bike
Yeah but then you don't have mountains do you?
I'd not realised that was a prerequisite for buying a mountain bike? Someone needs to tell the 99.9% of people who buy MTBs and don't live in the mountains!
I'm not sure I get your argument, I have a lighter, less burly bike than you because I live somewhere with less harsh terrain. A lot of people choose something tougher, I Personally don't see the need considering my own riding style and terrain! At no point have I berated anyone for their choice of bike, it's horses for courses!
Look lets just accept that you guys are absolutely correct, weight is irrelevent for MTBing.
I mean, doesn't matter what Peaty (DH) and Oli (XC) think or do, they're obviously wrong:
http://www.bikemagic.com/gear-news/steve-peats-santa-cruz-v10/7279.html
http://www.bikemagic.com/gear-news/oli-beckingsales-giant-anthem-advanced/5461.html
njee the point is should it really be named 'mountain bike'?
19.9lb cx,21.4lb ss 29,22.2lb bmx.
Yes juan, they are mountain bikes, they are not downhill bikes! If I was riding up mountain, and then down and I wanted to get to the top as quickly as possible I'd be happy with my choice of bike!
ok for Juan I dont know how much any of my slightly hilly insubstantial terrain bikes weigh.
I've ridden mine to the top of (and back down) the highest mountain in England and Wales - does that make it a mountain bike? If not, then by Juan's rather silly criteria none of us own mountain bikes.
Though if it's not a mountain bike because it's not designed to be used in megavalanche (like njee I'm sure it would survive, just not so sure I would), then what am I supposed to call it, Juan?
Off road bike maybe. I used the meagavalanche as it's probably the only mountain bike (albeit downhill orientated) you people may know.
You can look for my other post on the subject, as you will find a video of the special number 2 of the round two of the 1001 sentier enduro (ronde du taïsson). Will give you an idea of what a bike should be able to cope.
Given you're still talking a complete load of tosh, I really can't be bothered searching - sorry. Anyway, I do go up and down mountains on my bike (have also ridden to the top of 10,000ft peaks in Utah on my old bike which was almost as light), hence it's a mountain bike.
Are you looking forward to watching the "off road biking" at the Olympics? I bet my bike is rather more suitable for the "off road bike orienteering" I like to do than yours is.
ok for aracer as you're damn too lazy to search.
[url] http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/all-mountain-freeride-what-bike/page/2#post-1208530 [/url]
End of page two I send the link to the vids. And then you'll tell if the course of the Olympics is likely to look like that... I don't think XC is still mountain biking (albeit maybe in scotland but then most of people walk down the slopes). It's XC end off, just racing around a muddy field.
My Orange 5AM 2008 weighs in at 29.5lbs 😀
Hmm, so your mountain biking world is limited to the "all mountain / freeride" niche? I presume from the continuous speed on the video (as much as I could bear the music for) that your riding is all downhill, in which case yours isn't a mountain bike, it's a mountain hobby horse. You do realise that mountain biking involves riding up the mountains as well as down? BTW I reckon my bike would quite happily cope with what I saw in that video - not the death by huge rocks, dropoffs and jumps I was expecting. It would be slower than yours on that, but then so would your bike if I was riding it 😉
Well two things. How do you think we get to the top of the mountain? As I said it's an enduro, so no shuttle allowed ;). Plus the bits that are fast forward are the bits that are not downhill (in this case mainly ups). I rode my HJ there 3 times (still heavier than your bike at 12.3 kg). First time it costed me a rim and a tube. Second and third time it cost me 3 tubes and another rim. We found the only way you could ride a HT down there (after riding it for 70 minutes uphill) was to fit DH wheels.
But my bike isn't a HT. I'm still curious why you think it's so incapable just because it's light.