Where/How do you get your bikes weighed?

Seen loads of weights of bikes posted up on here, where do you get your bikes weighed? Short of taking it all apart and putting one component at a time on the kitchen scales and adding up at the end i don’t know how i would go about it.

I know our bathroom scales are way out so not accurate at all. Just curious now as to how much my bike(s) weigh.

Park Tools bike scales?

Ask your LBS, we have a park scales for such requests.

There’s no possible way of weighing a bike.
I think they just make it up….

DrP

(Edit -I’ve just seen a company in China where you can send your bike to be weighed. It must be that)

I stand on my bathroom scales and take my weight, then stand on again holding my bike. Deduct my weight from weight + bike = pretty close to ball park bike weight.

I take mine to Slimming World for the Tuesday weigh in

Weigh yourself on your scales. Then pick up your bike and get back on the scales. Subtract your weight from the number you get.

Pick up my steel frame single speed MTB. Say, “ooh that’s quite heavy.”
Pick up a different bike. say, “wow that’s much lighter/even heavier*”
That’s a close as I’ll ever need to be.

*delete as appropriate.

Luggage weighing hook, tied to something.

All I’d add to tthew’s comments are have a dump before you go out and, if you are really worried about a pound or two either way, avoid mud.

I go off advertised weight of all the components, frame, wheels etc add them up and deduct 10%. Pretty much like everyone else does on here

Pretty much like everyone else does on here

Aye, and those of us with accurate scales know that. Which is why we also know that most folks’ bike weight claims are guess-work.

Exactly

Make it up.Subtract a 2 pounds for “I’m going tubeless and I’ve got some foam grips coming” and ready the righteous indignation for when someone calls bullshizzle.
Despite having 2 sets of digital scales in the work shop (don’t ask) people still won’t believe them when you question the validity of their ’24lb’ orange 5.

Ern with one of these digital luggage scales
hell of alot cheaper than the park tools version.

Bought a digital luggage scale to do mine. Weighed mine a few times and got consistant weight. Took it to the lbs for work doing on it, and they weighed it on a pukka bike scale. Got same weight as my cheapy ones.

Do you know anyone whose hobby is fishing?

Cheap digital luggage scales from ebay. I’ve weighed something of a known weight with mine and their suprisingly accurate.

Every bike I build weighs 29.9lb to 33lb just always ends up that way, my Orange 5 was 33lb full xtr , flows, 36’s and reverb 😀 Just buuilt a 29er hard tail 29.9lb my Tracer 2 32.9lb, £4 scales of Ebay , as it happens the Park scales gave the same figures

We had one of the cheapo ebay special luggage weighers but it was FAR from accurate, in fact it weighed differently every time you picked the bike up. I spent £20 on the one from Planet X bikes and its much better, can attach it to my work stand and hang stuff from it and its consistent with its measurements. If I wasn’t so fussed I’d just ask LBS to weigh it occasionally but I’ve turned into a bit of a weight weenie!

Whatever the temperature is in degrees C is my start point, then just pic kg or lb, which ever is most plausible.

Do you know anyone whose hobby is fishing?

Nah, hopeless.. Fishing scales add 5%. Bike scales deduct 5% : )

I’ve got a Topeak work stand with integrated scales.

If it’s to post the weight on a forum, theres no need to weigh the bike first.

Burly full sus – just over 30lbs
Trail full sus – 28lbs
racy ish hardtail – just over 24lbs
Carbon XC bike – 19lbs
Fatbike 36lbs before drilling rims, 26lbs after

That appears to me to be the general gist of it.

My hairdresser has some very nice electronic scales. I just get my bike weighed while I’m getting a perm.

Bike weights often make me chuckle.
Someone built up a Soul with steel stationed Toras and average wheels/groupset and claimed it was under 24lbs!

Salter carp scales, VERY accurate, those guys are anally retentive about their fish!

I don’t.

Ebay scales. Slung from a beam in the garage and a cable tie around the frame to get it in the middles. They aren’t all that accurate mind you. This was with Arch EX and 2.2 Nics on. I weighed it again at the wheelbuilder’s on his super accurate scales with Flows and 2.4 Nics, and it weighed 300g less. 😀

ebay scales are happy 🙂

About as happy as I was when I realised I’d got it under 30lb!

I’ve got the same ones monkey boy linked to. I’ve checked them against some calibrated 5kg & 10kg weights and they were within 50g. More than good enough for weighing bikes.

28lbs for my trail bike and 19.5lbs for my HT as it turns out.

Ill do it for you, weeeeyyyyyyy!

Happy?

29lbs scapegoat? I’d be gutted, look here….

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/show-me-your-10-11kg-fs-bike/page/2#post-6038002

Apparently….

Surely there’s an App?
Balancing your bike is the tricky bit 😉

@tomhoward. That’s an SL though, not a Mojo HD with a 160 Slant….. 😀