How much does your hybrid weigh?

[pooks]

Mine weighs 38.5 pounds!

Wow. That's heavy, huh?

With a saddlebag and Brooks saddle, but not much else on it when I weighed it. It's a <a href="http://dynamicbicycles.com/buy/Bikes.php?prodid=49/">shaft-drive bike</a> so may be heavier than average.

[mimitabby]

that does sound heavy. I will weigh mine tonight; but promise me you won't ask me to weigh my tandem?

(I can see me balancing on the bathroom scale trying to hold the tandem off the ground) no no no. DON'T ask about tandems!! :eek: :eek:

[pooks]

What about your tandem, mini?

::whistling::

[HillSlugger]

Raleigh C40 Hybrid: about 34 pounds with saddle bag and pump

[HipGnosis6]

My Specialized Sirrus weighs about 28 lbs including the fenders, rack, headlight but NOT the battery (I can't have it and a water bottle since right now I only have one bottle cage - so the battery was in the backpack, though I didn't expect to need it that day), a full water bottle, computer, bell, cable lock and small seat bag. She was intended as a commuter; I'd like to add bar ends, a frame pump and fender extensions/mud flaps on top of all the crap that I've already loaded onto her.

Well I'll be darned... maybe that wierd "flat bar road bike" designation really does apply. I don't really think of her as a road bike, though, and not just because she doesn't havedrop bars or 23x700c tires (she's got 28's, which is beefy enough for the rough pavement or occasional brick roads you run across here), but because she's better suited to the city than the Sterling CitySport hybrid I had back in the day. That was a great bike - I definitely had the fanciest bike at Sunset Elementary School - but like the weights you all are mentioning now, it weighed in at significantly more than 30 pounds.

[light_sabe_r]

Jamis Tangier.

I think it's 14.5kg. It was the lightest hybrid I got to try out (and the comfiest) I think my new roadie is 5kg lighter

[Toni]

Hey, HipGnosis6, do you just love your Sirrus? I have a Trek 5000 road bike but I wanted to ride to work 3 times a week and didn't want to take the chance of having my Trek stolen......so, I got the Sirrus and I absolutely love this bike (not in any kind of weird way :D ). I have accessorized it so much (SOMA fenders, SOMA pedals, NiteRider Halogen light, computer, back rack with bag) I feel like I have "pimped" my ride! My ride is only 10 miles each way, mostly on a bike path (Lucky me :D), but I always wish it was a longer ride because I enjoy my bike so much.

[mimitabby]

My Raleigh C700 hybrid weighs 30 pounds.

my tandem.. (and this was really fun to hold while standing on a scale) weighs 41 pounds!

[pooks]

My hybrid weighs almost as much as your tandem? LOL

[HipGnosis6]

Hey, HipGnosis6, do you just love your Sirrus? I have a Trek 5000 road bike but I wanted to ride to work 3 times a week and didn't want to take the chance of having my Trek stolen......so, I got the Sirrus and I absolutely love this bike (not in any kind of weird way :D ). I have accessorized it so much (SOMA fenders, SOMA pedals, NiteRider Halogen light, computer, back rack with bag) I feel like I have "pimped" my ride! My ride is only 10 miles each way, mostly on a bike path (Lucky me :D), but I always wish it was a longer ride because I enjoy my bike so much.

I DO love my Sirrus.... I got the base model in part because it was in my price range and in part because it is ever so functional. I'm always surprised when the bike shop guys tell me, "This is a bike after my own heart." I always ask why, the the responses every time were along the lines of "Because it's clearly a working commuter bike."

I'd never considered it "pimping my ride" but it totally is! :p

[mimitabby]

My hybrid weighs almost as much as your tandem? LOL

Pooks, we have a heavy tandem too (still panting here ;) )
A bike as heavy as yours is slowing you down, i think.

(want to buy a Raleigh?) :D :D

[ChainsOflove]

My hybrid, A cannondale H300, named Abigail, is so big fat and heavy I'm scared to weigh her. She is one big girl.

[pooks]

A bike as heavy as yours is slowing you down, i think.

(want to buy a Raleigh?) :D :D

Well, yes, I figured it was. I'm still considering getting a road bike of some kind, too. But I know so little about it, and will learn a lot more before I jump into that. Also, I don't know ANYTHING about shifting gears and chains!

[mary9761]

My Navigator 50 weighs MORE than your tandem!!!!:eek: 46.5 lbs fully loaded the way I ride with water, rack, lights etc. This was weighed at the LBS!! I load this thing on and off the front rack of a city bus on a regular basis too.. :eek:

[mimitabby]

Well, yes, I figured it was. I'm still considering getting a road bike of some kind, too. But I know so little about it, and will learn a lot more before I jump into that. Also, I don't know ANYTHING about shifting gears and chains!

What worked for me is this; i bought a used road bike because i wasn't sure i would like it.. I didn't want to buy a new bike with all the sticker shock and all and find out I HATED it.

And shifting. hehehe you will just have to learn. bit by bit. I am still learning myself.

what would have been even better was if i could have borrowed someone's bike.. But the only someone was waiting for her new bike to come in and whenever I made an overture to borrow the bike, her new bike had a delay in the manufacturing process. . I think i bought my Bianchi before she ever got her new bike!

[pooks]

Mary, I bet if I had full water bottles, and sizeable lights and such, mine could weigh as much as yours!

mimi -- I thought somebody said that used bikes cost almost as much as new unless they needed a lot of work? Or maybe finding one that actually fits you AND is in decent shape is really hard? I just recall somebody thinking about getting a used bike and being advised that they might want to look at new. But the idea of a used one is appealing.

[mimitabby]

I don't think that's true that used bikes cost as much as new!
but maybe where you are it's hard to find them?
They usually cost about 1/2 the price the same bike cost new. And if you get an older bike you can learn a lot without spending a fortune on the wrong bike.

(my bianchi cost about 1/2 the price of the same model and year new.)

[pooks]

I'm sure there are plenty to choose from around here. What I need to do is keep riding the one I've got, until I have a stronger sense of what a good fit should feel like (or shouldn't feel like). And read about the different ones and learn a lot more.

Oh. Right. That's why I'm here.

[mimitabby]

Yeah, me too! I've learned a lot!!!!!
(Thanks all you patient leaders!)