Originally Posted by
gsa103
I'll have to weigh mine at some point, but 28 lbs has got to be the weight with racks, etc. I've got the SLR 2, which doesn't have that, it feels more like lower ~23 lbs. You could certainly get lighter, but that's mainly component choices.
I've had mine a while now. No regrets on it. I'm still debating if I want to upgrade the brakes to get the one-finger lever shape, but the brakes are still flawless. Overall, I lose ~3 mph commuting compared with my road bike, but that's not too surprising, considering that the comparison is a ~16lb carbon bike with 23mm race tires. The nice part is that I can just bomb off curbs and through dirt, instead of picking lines carefully on the road bike.
If you replaced the stock tyres on the Toughroad with Schwalbe Marathon Supreme 40mm tyres, that 3 mph would likely shrink by at least 1 mph.