Forum menu
Well my bike was only £995, but despite its weight im happy itll cope with more varied terrain than my road bike and be infinately more comfortable and faster over long distance on the road than my mtb. And guess what, i dont need to fettle with it pre ride to do either of those, its always ready go.
Aye I’m surprised how many folks on here are either in denial/got shafted with an overly heavy gravel bike
I like light bikes (the bike I ride on gravel weighs 7.2kg) but to a lot of people a kg here or there won't matter at all so I don't think they have been shafted. And again, they are only heavy in your confused view of it.
Just figured folks buying into gravel/fast off road would enjoy it more if most companies churned out a reasonable weight bike without charging silly money.
10kg for a £1000 gravel bike is a reasonable weight. It only seems to be you that has some lower figure in mind based on 'just because'. And the single example with the Superfly is bogus as 1kg could have been dropped by switching to light CX tyres and an XT cassette. Drop the same weight from the Cinelli with upgrades and it will weigh 9.8kg so still lighter
'Tis a fair point actually, maybe I *should* just listen to my inner hipster and get that Cinelli...
The hipster will be waiting for the MASH version so you are safe with a Cinelli.
Isn't this all a bit like asking why mountain bikes are all a bit heavy? There's quite a spectrum in this segment from road bikes with a little more tyre clearance to dual wheel size bikes that are being sold as nearly-mountainbikes. I'd imagine that some of the latter have to pass MTB CEN certification which must require a certain amount of beef in the frame.
So to summarise.
Most gravel bikes are indeed heavy.
Big manufacturers are ripping us off.
Some folks are still bitter after being sucked into the fat bike fad.
So to summarise, plus one is a complete troll.