On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 8:16 PM, PATRICK MOORE <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: Nice commuter under 25 lb equipped but not laden. Mine is > probably under 23 lb with rack but no bag.
How does this work? First of all, why are you weighing a commuting bike without bags, when every single time you commute on it, you will use bags? It seems to me, to make meaningful comparisons, we should weigh our bikes as ridden. That is, a meaningful weight of a commuter bike is the weight of the bike with everything you normally have on your commuter bike when you take out the things you take out at work or when you get home (your laptop, any clothes you change into at work, your lunch, and so forth). I just weighed my Atlantis, without water bottles but otherwise as ridden. It weighs 35.5 pounds. I don't understand how I could possibly have something that I could call a commute bike that weighed 23 pounds. Commute bikes, by their very nature, have fenders, lights and some kind of bag or basket. Every time I get on the bike, I carry a lock, a spare tube, a few tools, a patch kit. So my bike weighs almost half again as much as Patrick's rule. I'm ten pounds over. How am I supposed to put this bike on a diet, assuming I want to? Let's say I'm at my Spanish class and it's time to come home. It's ten o'clock at night, it's 40 degrees, it's dark, it's raining. I walk out of class carrying my notebook, dictionary and purse, already wearing my rain clothes. I'm about to load up my 23-pound bike and ride home. What does that 23 pound bike look like? How is it 12.5 pounds less than my actual 35.5 pound bike? -- -- Anne Paulson My hovercraft is full of eels -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
