Why do people want lighter bikes?

[mudsticks]

mm - but if you are touring, and I have the impression that, like me, you carry a lot of stuff, the bike is the least of the problems when it comes to lifting it over fences and gates. For touring I'm more interested in how dependable the bike feels, how it rolls, how it carries the weight/mountain of junk I carry.

I don't really carry much - i try to keep it down to about 12kg total - thats with the panniers themselves.

Add on 12kg for the bike- thats less than a sack of spuds total .

But yes dependable rollability is always key.

Oh and the correct colour too - which i think we've just got properly started on - welcome to the party blue hills - what are your thoughts?? - i'd imagine you're a British Racing Green kinda guy??

 

[Blue Hills]

er spooky mudsticks.

I imagine you know me from somewhere.

online - another place? for I think you are some distance away.

Yes one of my bikes is British Racing Green - been a favourite colour since childhood - but I do have getting on for 10 bikes.

I clearly got it wrong about your loading.

On the overall question of weight, while I have been mightily impressed by some uber lightweight modern carbon things (seem to weigh less than their bits) it's not important to me.

edit - or maybe you just sneaked a look at my gallery - but there's also a steely grey and a mango there.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Don't be silly we all know red bikes go faster. Look up red shift.

My fixed is a lovely shade of crimson, and is faster than its pilot.

 

[mudsticks]

er spooky mudsticks.

I imagine you know me from somewhere.

online - another place? for I think you are some distance away.

Yes one of my bikes is British Racing Green - been a favourite colour since childhood - but I do have getting on for 10 bikes.

I clearly got it wrong about your loading.

On the overall question of weight, while I have been mightily impressed by some uber lightweight modern carbon things (seem to weigh less than their bits) it's not important to me.

edit - or maybe you just sneaked a look at my gallery - but there's also a steely grey and a mango there.

Don't panic, @Blue Hills just a teensy bit of amateur personality profiling.
Can't help myself, there's really no existential threat to your person, or property.

But where would I peruse this picture gallery of your velicipedal delights, if I so chose??

 

[MontyVeda]

My nickel plated bike reflects more light than any pigmented colour... so from a scientific POV, will theoretically be fasterer.

 

[mudsticks]

My nickel plated bike reflects more light than any pigmented colour... so from a scientific POV, will theoretically be fasterer.

There we have it folks - a sciencey person, has used some sciencey wurds - so now we know the truth

 

[Blue Hills]

Don't panic, @Blue Hills just a teensy bit of amateur personality profiling.
Can't help myself, there's really no existential threat to your person, or property.

But where would I peruse this picture gallery of your velicipedal delights, if I so chose??

Click on my profile and then on the media tab.

It is of course possible that you don't have supernatural powers after all (phew!) and subconsciously remembered a post of mine about a serious ding I had given a bike - the gallery has a pic of the ding.

You won't find much there but there is a pic of the mango thing and the greyish build of mine.

 

[Cycleops]

You won't find much there but there is a pic of the mango thing and the greyish build of mine.

Here's a picture of a mango just to avoid any confusion.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Always carry a ladder when touring. The extra weight gets you fitter and you can get over those five bar gates.

 

[mudsticks]

Always carry a ladder when touring. The extra weight gets you fitter and you can get over those five bar gates.

I find towing a portable trebuchet similarly useful and has far greater entertainment value.

Here's a picture of a mango just to avoid any confusion.

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Thank you,

We mustn't assume knowledge.
Nor stupidity...

 

[mjr]

I find towing a portable trebuchet similarly useful and has far greater entertainment value.

But you know what they say: you can't take it with you when you go!

 

[beany_bot]

Quite possibly the most pointless thread on cycling ever to be posted on the internet. Ever.

How incredibly rude!
And obviously it's not that pointless as (for the first few pages anyway) it has encouraged some healthy debate and sharing of good thoughts.

 

[Markymark]

How incredibly rude!
And obviously it's not that pointless as (for the first few pages anyway) it has encouraged some healthy debate and sharing of good thoughts.

I'd say it's mainly people taking the mick.

 

[mudsticks]

How incredibly rude!
And obviously it's not that pointless as (for the first few pages anyway) it has encouraged some healthy debate and sharing of good thoughts.

Quite so - I think we've established that there could be even more pointless discussions.

So discovering that in itself, is a net gain.

I'd say well done @beany_bot for getting us chatting - and better luck next time with crafting a truly and utterly inane topic for us to burble about.

 

[EltonFrog]

Quite so - I think we've established that there could be even more pointless discussions.

So discovering that in itself, is a net gain.

I'd say well done @beany_bot for getting us chatting - and better luck next time with crafting a truly and utterly inane topic for us to burble about.

Well! Really! How rude.