Bike Weight

[Veronica]

Nancy and I stopped at a bike store on our ride today so I could buy another tube. Somehow the weight of my bike comes up and the LBS guy offers to weigh it. 31 pounds with 2 full water bottles, rack, front and rear fenders. You know, all the gear that you actually have on your bike when you're riding. Or at least - that I have on my bike while riding. Nancy's bike comes in at a bit over 24 pounds.

Thom's suggestion - lose 6 pounds. Gee honey - I would if I could. But I bet I'd still have work hard to keep up with her.

V.

[jobob]

I just weighed Pokey. 33 lbs, with all the stuff you mentioned.

And I wouldn't trade him in for the world

[ed. to add]:
Ooh, Dusty, my "fast" bike, comes in at a svelte 28 lbs, loaded w. all the necessities.
No wonder I'm so much swifter on Dusty than on Pokey.
Yeah, swift, right.

[Lise]

How do you weigh your bike? Pick it up and stand on the scale, then subtract your weight? L.

[Veronica]

At the LBS they had what looked like a work stand that he put it on.

V.

[mary9761]

I'm almost afraid to know how much "the little Navigator that Could" weighs. I have a water bottle, lights, fuzzy dice, just added a cooler bag (for bendo box) a under seat bag on the frame instead of behind the seat. The bike itself is heavy add all that stuff and then me and sometimes a 25 backpack coming from the grocery and whatever gets tied to the handlebars that don't fit in the pack.
Hmmmm, I may try the weigh me then weigh the bike trick if I don't blow up the scales... Weight (wait ) I've lost 100 pounds so that should give a LITTLE extra leeway on the scales LOL...

[Lise]

I'm almost afraid to know how much "the little Navigator that Could" weighs. I have a water bottle, lights, fuzzy dice, just added a cooler bag (for bendo box) a under seat bag on the frame instead of behind the seat. The bike itself is heavy add all that stuff and then me and sometimes a 25 backpack coming from the grocery and whatever gets tied to the handlebars that don't fit in the pack.
Hmmmm, I may try the weigh me then weigh the bike trick if I don't blow up the scales... Weight (wait ) I've lost 100 pounds so that should give a LITTLE extra leeway on the scales LOL...

Ha! Fuzzy dice! Listen, I feel if you can happily propel it down the road, then it's the right bike. I only ever doubted my Larkspur when it was too heavy to ride 100K comfortably. I have loved it on every other ride I've ever been on. Now, those fuzzy dice, let's see if TE sells them for bikes... L.

[jobob]

How do you weigh your bike? Pick it up and stand on the scale, then subtract your weight? L.

Yep, that's what I did.

[Irulan]

some bike shops use a hook type scale ( think sides of beef, big fish) that hangs from the ceiling.

[mary9761]

Ha! Fuzzy dice! Listen, I feel if you can happily propel it down the road, then it's the right bike. I only ever doubted my Larkspur when it was too heavy to ride 100K comfortably. I have loved it on every other ride I've ever been on. Now, those fuzzy dice, let's see if TE sells them for bikes... L.

The fuzzy dice I found at a dollar general store in Elletsville, IN for a buck when I was down there for the Hilly hundred in October. I still need to recover them to match my blue leopard jersey set LOL..

I know I don't look like a serious cyclist at times riding down the road on my pimped out "Little Navigator that Could", but life is too short to be too serious all the time.
I just finished a fleece vest that I added pockets to the pattern made from a bright orangey Halloween print that I got on sale after Halloween. I know it's LOUD, but it's VISIBLE. I get some odd looks, but oh, well, I'm me and I ride some mean roads at times so I need to be SEEN! I'll post photos later when I get them taken and uploaded.
I march the beat of my own bassoon so if I'm strange, at least you'll never forget me. People that saw me down in Elletsville, remembered the bike when we ran into each other on the MONON a month later.

[caligurl]

oh mary... i love the dice!

hubby makes fun of me cuz he claims i take everything but the kitchen sink with me! i have a small handlebar bag (along with a cell phone holder and under the seat bag with the normal amenities).... the handle bar bag holds all sorts of good stuff... depending on the ride....

when i first got my bike... it didn't weigh toooooo much... (less than hubbie's that was a couple year's older due to lighter parts moreso than a smaller frame)... but add all my "stuff" and it's a heavy lil bugger.. i'm sure!!! i can still lift it though (maybe thanx to my weight lifting moreso than being light)

i'll have to give it a weigh....

[jobob]

I LOVE it !

I have black & white Dalmatian-print earbags ( http://www.earbagsus.com/ ) that match the black & white pattern on Pokey's handlebar tape.

Fuzzy dice might work well too !

- jo "aerodynamic? notsomuch" bob

[caligurl]

my hubby bought a pair of... uhm.... nutz (keychain sized) to put on his bike... but they swung around too much and he took them off... i thought they looked cute hanging off his seat!

[mary9761]

I'll get new photos with me in all my new weather gear that I'm making soon as well as a new photo of the Little Navigator that Could (her new name) I had started to call her Nightmare as in Wendy the Good Witch's steed from Casper, partly because it's a nick of mine actually AND since I'm such a Cooper fan, but "The Little Navigator that Could" is so much more appropriate seeing she has nearly 2000 miles on her since we first met 27 July, 2005. She's already had her first bottom brackets ridden to pieces and replaced. She's done a 40 mile circuit at the Hilly Hundred in Elletsville, IN http://HillyHundred.org and her longest one day ride to date has been 75 miles just a couple weeks ago. She's got 7 metrics under her handlebars, many 50+ mile rides as well. She's taken me to the grocery and back several times carrying me and 25 - 40 pounds of groceries home on her bars and my back in heavy winds. She's a good little girl. She's already been hybridized with a new adjustable headstem and bar ends (not in the photo above). She doesn't complain when I dress her funny, (in fact I think she likes her American flag bell, fuzzy dice and funny shark name tag)

[DirtDiva]

I know I don't look like a serious cyclist...

The wear on those tyres says otherwise!

[Trekhawk]

The fuzzy dice I found at a dollar general store in Elletsville, IN for a buck when I was down there for the Hilly hundred in October. I still need to recover them to match my blue leopard jersey set LOL..
I know I don't look like a serious cyclist at times riding down the road on my pimped out "Little Navigator that Could", but life is too short to be too serious all the time.
I just finished a fleece vest that I added pockets to the pattern made from a bright orangey Halloween print that I got on sale after Halloween. I know it's LOUD, but it's VISIBLE. I get some odd looks, but oh, well, I'm me and I ride some mean roads at times so I need to be SEEN! I'll post photos later when I get them taken and uploaded.
I march the beat of my own bassoon so if I'm strange, at least you'll never forget me. People that saw me down in Elletsville, remembered the bike when we ran into each other on the MONON a month later.

Mary - I love the bike and I love reading your posts. Thank you for being an individual and letting your personality shine thru and add some colour to our days. Life would be pretty grey if we all conformed to a set idea of what a serious rider is. No grey around you Mary and thats FABULOUS.