Bought some new digital bathroom scales today and weighed the bikes

[potsy]

ahh of course....

Come on 400bhp

 

[xxmimixx]

You step onto the scales carrying your bike. Then you step onto the scales without the bike. The difference between the two weights is your bike.

why the hassle when you could use something like this?

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

I did this recently and was suprised to find that my Pinnacle Dolomite was 10.9kg and my ancient Ribble R4 mountain bike with Mazzochi Bomber oil-filled suspension forks was 9.4kg. When I brought the road bike I expected it to be lighter than my MTB having never weighed it .

Blimey really? It takes a carbon frame, the lightest forks and various high end bits and this is still hitting 11kg with pedals...

 

[Ajax_Gaz]

Popped into my local store on the way home and picked up a set

 

[ushills]

Blimey really? It takes a carbon frame, the lightest forks and various high end bits and this is still hitting 11kg with pedals...

Must admit I was a bit suprised, however, comparing the frames the R4 seems to have aluminium the thickness of a coke can in parts and I'm a bit concerned about it now. However, the wheels are very light (26in) and the geax tyres are lightweight as well, also being an MTB the frame is considerably smaller than my road bike, the weight with the forks suprised me as the Pinnacle has carbon forks but is heavier. Weight was without pedals as they are on the road bike, Time ATACS so not too heavy.

The R4 frame is anything but beefy compared to that Boardman and has a noticable ting when flicking the frame compared to the dull thud of the Pinnacle so that may account for a lot of the saving

 

[guitarpete247]

How do you fit a bike on those? Wouldn't fisherman's scales do a better job?

What size fish do you catch ?

I used the suitcase scales (Same as fishermans scales) and showed my bike is too heavy at 13Kg.

 

[Alembicbassman]

It's the old fallacy that a carbon frame is lighter than an alloy one which is lighter than a steel one. It all depends on how its made.

 

[RecordAceFromNew]

It's the old fallacy that a carbon frame is lighter than an alloy one which is lighter than a steel one. It all depends on how its made.

Has anybody here suggested a carbon frame is always lighter than an alloy one? Separately, are you prepared to wager the carbon frames are heavier than the alloy ones within the same model series (such as the Boardman HT, Giant XTC, Scott Scale etc.)?

 

[Arsen Gere]

If I was going to weight myself I'd go for the bathroom ones. I've never figured out where to put the hook on the fisherman ones.

 

[Monkspeed]

Reading your thread made me want to weight mine as well so I did!

OK mine is a B'twin Triban 3 (60cm frame), only things added to it from standard was the water bottle bracket, mini DX bracket and the wireless computer bracket and transmitter and magnet. Total 9.486 kgs. I was quite impressed by that really! Maybe we should do a sticky thread with bikes real measured weights?