On 2/21/08, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 09:27:54AM -0500, frank theriault wrote: > > > > Italian CF, eh? Wow! My aluminium trackbike isn't that light, but at > > about 18 pounds, it's light enough for me. But 16 pounds 11 oz? For > > a road bike? That's Tour de France climbing-bike light! (actually > > about a pound more - whatever - it's still impressive). > > > A bit more than a pound, nowadays. At the Amgen Tour of California > one of the major suppliers (Cervelo, perhaps - not Trek, anyway) has > a bike hanging on a scale in their booth. The scale reads 13lb 8oz. > > These days the hunt is for ounces. The latest trick is in the system > used to track the position of riders on the road. It used to be a > little transponder carried by the rider, but then somebody had the > bright idea of going to a passive system (rather like the security > cards used to gain entry to many buildings), and putting the support > electronics in the team cars. Apparently the extra weight of the > battery and associated electronics was worth moving off the bike. >
Actually, there's weight limits for race bikes. 14.8lbs is the minimum. That 13lb 8oz bike is not race-legal. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
