[Closed] Guess the weight of my bike!

26 seems hopeful, I'll go for 31lbs.

that is just ridiculous,

how can anyone possibly make an accurate estimate without knowing the quantity and brand of sealant you are using 🙄

just weigh it on the bathroom scales and stop wasting everyones time.

or you can weigh yourself, then weigh yourself with the bike. that's the most accurate way.

Say... that's a nice bike...

Weigh yourself standing on some bathroom scales, then weigh yourself again holding the bike.

Deduct your weight from the last figure, bingo.

Ahhhh, explains why people weigh without pedals. I'd rip my shins to shreds trying to get on my scales with the bike otherwise.

Cougar - Moderator
Say... that's a nice bike...

And you wouldn't believe how light it is!

32lbs, I'm still of the opinion all bikes secretly weigh 32lbs, in this case it sounds about right.

Have you considered plastic pedals and a plastic seat? Easy way to drop 5-6lbs.

12.75kilos

I reckon 13kg easily.

31 lb

~1.635 lbs more than my Wazoo. 😉

33lbs

3 weeks.

I bought a lightweight,beautifully sculptured expensive frame from a boutique American brand which went bust and was subsequently bought by a bargain basement, price slashing Yorkshire outfit.Imagine my disgust when I stood on my bathroom scales and realised that my once gorgeous frame had not only gone up in weight overnight but was now considered fugly by the STW bike snobs 🙁

2358 grapes.

Between 1 and 2,000kgs.

1,300 ginger nuts

Dunked, or undunked?

How many psi in the shock? They've got to add up a bit I reckon.

Once you have an answer you can weigh the bike, then weigh yourself holding the bike and deduct one from the other. Then apply the mattyfez method above to determine the weight of the bike.

Well I know what it doesn't weigh, & that's 26lb's.

Reverb

You wanna weigh reverb!?

Far out man... far out...

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[I]I have no idea what it weighs so I'm going to guess 26lb without the reverb.[/I]

30lbs without Reverb

30.05 lbs

An orange 29'er...that's a 35lb'er all day long. I will not believe anything or anyone that says otherwise

Well I've shone a laser(pointer) past it, measured the deflection of the beam (with a laser measure obviously) and done the maths to work out its mass (also if it was magnetic, turns out thats bs)then used the calculated mass and known value of g to calculate its weight.

Turns out my estimate was 26lb over!

So on the basis my very acurate method turns out to be quite limited by inaccurate equipment I'll ride to work on the bike in question on Friday, (this will be good for seeing me loose any weight the bike "gains" beyond 26lb) and weigh it on our scales, (they can count bolts so should be ok with a bike. I assume they can count to 1).

A free bag of haribo to who ever gets closest to what the scales say.

Edit: If i weigh it will enjoy riding it less?* If so might not do this.

*I'm not sure I can ride it less.

32lb 7oz

Our bathroom scales can also determine body mass so if I feed in the wheel and frame size will it tell my how much weight it needs to loose.
I usually get weighed in the morning as I find I always weigh less at that time. Is this the best time to weigh the bike.

I'm sure that one of our bikes must weigh about 29lb which is probably the average of what they weigh.

I weighed my bike then stripped it down to its components parts, weighed them individually on a digital scales, noted them all down on a spreadsheet, rebuilt the bike and compared the individual weights to the overall bike weight.

Simple and effective

My medium Five is 32lbs.
I reckon 33lbs.

ehrob - Member
just weigh it on the bathroom scales and stop wasting everyones time.

or you can weigh yourself, then weigh yourself with the bike. that's the most accurate way.

see, i couldnt do that. our bathroom scales are in the ensuite, which would mean carrying the bike through the house and up the stairs, and i doubt it would get round the bend in the stairs. and even then, the ensuite is too small to fit a bike in it, so i'd have to leave half the bike outside the door and just weigh one end at a time.

Or, pick your bike up, and get someone to listen to the 'hoomph!' noise you make. Now, carry a load of bricks to your bathroom, and keep adding bricks to an Ikea bag till it requires the same amount of 'hoomph!' to lift. Then weigh all the bricks, one at a time, on your bathroom scales. Add up the individual weights and bingo!

Double post...

I could just put it in the village pond and measure how much the water rises?

What you really need to do is pay Elon Musk a large wad, take your bike into space, and measure its mass in a vacuum.

It's the only way to be reasonably sure.

But no vacuum is truly perfect, not even in interstellar space, where there are still a few hydrogen atoms per cubic meter.

But no vacuum is truly perfect

You've not read [s]some of the arguments on[/s] the political threads have you

You should use a calorimitor to calculate the mass accurately.

[i]I could just put it in the village pond and measure how much the water rises? [/i]

because a carbon bike with large volume sealed tubes will displace far more water than a steel frame with weld pressure relief holes in all the tubes and thus must weigh more?

My fat bike would float and must weigh less than a duck.

My fat bike would float and must weigh less than a duck.

To my knowledge, ducks also float so they must weigh the same as a fat bike.

Heavier that a red one .

Maybe if you put plastic pedals on duck it would be a lot lighter than your fat bike?

[Edit]Also boutique carbon its heavy. Fact.

Though fact carbon isn't boutique so maybe it's not heavy?

That french bloke who used to eat light bulbs and metal, i'd have him eat your bike, then weigh his droppings.

Hmmm not sure I'd like to separate the bike from the other stuff. Also an orange tart big its bound to give him the runs