RobbieTunes

Your boots weigh that much.

xiaoman1 

I am not sure about the comparisons and how equal things are.....much depends on the equipment selection as well as frame size.
Perhaps a more accurate way to compare weights would be to compare frames that are devoid of anything but the frame and fork. IMO that would be comparing apples to apples or frame to frame.
Best, Ben
The way cudak888 has done

cudak888 

It's a good way to get an accurate weight - but it certainly does stink for anything that isn't already a bare frame and fork kicking around in one's shop

-Kurt

ramzilla

Just built this pretty little red Schwinn. It ws originally all steel. No kidding! Everything was made of steel. Wheels, handlebars, stem, crank, levers, everything. I swear the only alloy part on it was the kickstand!!! But, after installing alloy wheels, lightweight tires, alloy handlebars and, some other goodies it weighed in at a modest 31 pounds.

BEFORE:


AFTER:


SCALES:

xiaoman1 

Kurt,
It is a good argument for having to do that long overdue service!
Best, Ben

jamesdak 

Well, for the heck of it I tend to weigh all my bikes. Only standard is they are weighed ready to ride with their saddle, bottle cages, pedals, and Garmin mount installed. Only thing not there is the frame pumps I move around, lights, and kit bag.

First what I currently have.



And the ones moved on to new owners.

OldsCOOL

If your TX900 has 27” wheels, there is some of that extra weight. Just me but I’d have a tubular wheelset just for the weight and cool factor. Sweet bike!

My ‘77 Colnago Super (racer) weighs 21.25, the 86 Trek 760 weighs 20.5, both have tubular wheelsets.

3speedslow

On a great day I can weigh Up to 130#. My bikes are in the 20+ range. So together we roam the 150-160 total. Good enough for me!

tkamd73 

Thanks, yeah, when I got the bike it had 700s with tubulars, rode it that way till the first flat, not doing the glue thing, so switched to clinchers. Bike looked better with 27s, so went with that. Still rides great, anyway the big weight issue is the large frame, never gonna get to under 21 lbs, with steel frames greater then 25in,
Tim

77 Trek TX900

JaccoW

I tried looking up the weight of my Batavus Randonneur GL but it seems I never weighed it when I was finished.



My Koga-Miyata SilverAce is 18.4 kg (40.5 lbs) as pictured. But without the front rack (1kg / 2.2lbs), frame lock (0.75kg / 1.6 lbs), fenders (0.8g / 1.7 lbs) and saddle bag (0.5kg / 1.1 lbs) this would be a 15.3 kg (33.7 lbs) bike.
90mm drum brakes are heavy but work well. It still flies though.



And for my Koga-Miyata WorldTraveller project I've been mapping the brochure weights of all Koga-Miyata Touring bikes throughout the years.
It's a work in progress but you can see the average weight soaring up, while also becoming more capable and fully featured touring bikes.

Shrevvy 

Panasonic DX-5000 58 cm without pedals.




Trek 760 56 cm with pedals

leecycle

1975 Fuji Finest (with clinchers replacing stock tubulars): 22lbs 15 oz.

Sluggo

I have never seen anyone paint their workstand to match their bike (or vice versa). Looks awesome.

Sluggo

Not really C&V (though the brake cables are correct), but this provides another data point at the other end of the spectrum from all those race bikes. My touring bike (racks, fenders, dynamo lighting, Rohloff hub, 59 cm stout True Temper frame [without the bags and water bottles in the photo]) weighs just under 38 lbs (about 17.2 Kg).

Steel Charlie

I've seen a lot of likely C&V'ers (including myself) who make the weight of the bike fairly immaterial in a practical sense. By the time my ride for the day is loaded up with the tool bag, water bottle and my fat azz a couple lbs of bike weight are difficult to detect

noglider 

My 1971 Raleigh Super Course has gained weight due to my upgrades. New heavier crankset, shifters, and dynamo hub. It also has two headlights and two taillights. My bathroom scale says it's 32 pounds. It's a 21-1/2" frame size.

OldsCOOL

Maintaining era group components really makes the bike when you get a nice classic. The 27’s will do fine. Nice bike.

RobbieTunes

So my Spandex is betraying me....

Hobbiano 

Thanks. It's just a coincidence though. The bike was already repainted when I bought it used back in the late eighties. And the stand I bought used as well just a few years ago.

merziac

That is the standard color for those stands.

Steel Charlie

A stand - - ard color, eh? Good one

merziac

Heh, heh, didn't even think of that.

Dfrost 

My bikes weigh what they need to for comfort at my advanced age and riding preferences. Both are 63cm-frames weights listed as they could actually be ridden with pedals, my preferred leather saddles, etc.

Marinoni SLX Sports Tourer: 24.6 lbs/11.18 kg, no rear rack, pump or headlight. 25.5 lb as photographed. My early notes say it was 24.2 lb when first built with Open Pro rims, 28mm tires, lighter pedals, bar and stem using a different scale. I suspect that scale might have been optimistic.



Miyata 912 with Gugificazione! 27.53 lb/12.48 kg, including the custom rack supporting the rando bag, decaleur and plastic fenders that hadn’t been reinstalled when I took this. It was 25.2 lb pre-Gugificazione as a 1979 912 updated with Sachs 8-speed Ergo, triple, no fenders.



The rando bag shown with normal contents adds almost 5 lb but creates a remarkably versatile rain/errand bike. FWIW, a largish rear bag similarly equipped adds about 4.3 lbs to the Marinoni, almost as versatile when the roads are dry, since it’s easy to throw a pannier or two on its rear rack.

Rant mode ON: Whenever I weigh my bikes, the test engineer in me requires so many qualifiers, as you’ve no doubt noticed. The posts that show bikes as they are actually used seem most valid, or perhaps bare frame weights, which few of us know or remember to measure when we have a chance. (FWIW, the big red SLX Marinoni with CK headset and full chrome under the paint was 7.1 lb/3225 kg.)

Most of the posted weights in this thread are of academic interest, at best. (But the associated bike p**n is fun.) What’s with weighing minus pedals? Last time I checked, we need pedals to operate them. And why not include the frame size, since that significantly effects the result. Thanks to those who included that info.

If bragging rights are the goal, start with the smallest possible frame, weigh with an unpadded CF saddle (that few would actually use for any distance) and super short CF seat post, shortest and lowest stem, blah, blah, blah. Rant mode OFF.

ascherer 

I never weighed any of my bikes. I figured at 62cm or bigger I'd just be disappointed. But I recently checked out my Mercian, Pretty much 10kg/22 lbs without seat bag, bottle or pump. I was surprised.

ascherer 

I checked these guys. The International weighs about 32, 4 of which is the 8-speed SA hub.



The Pro Mark I weighs 30 without the front bag, bottle and pump.


So now I know.