I would agree that 27 pounds for a Clem with a few accoutrements is optimistic. Although some of the tubes on the newer versions is not as oversize, that would have little affect.
I live in a third-floor walkup apartment. When going down the stairs, I carry my Clem L with left hand on the headset area to prevent bar swing, right hand gripping near chainstay. Coming up, left hand the same, right hand on the curve of the step thru tube, aka top tube. Because of the weight plus the large size (mine is 52), BOBs (Big Ol' Boscos) and lack of top tube, I would be hard pressed to carry this bicycle up and down stairs with one hand, though I could manage it going up if I had to. One handed stair descents with mixtes or step thru frames is always going to be problematic in my experience. On Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 6:02:39 PM UTC-4, Ryan Fleming wrote: > > With all due respect I would be very surprised if the Clems weigh 25-27 > lbs; I'd be more inclined to guess somewhere north of 30 lbs. I suspect my > custom is more than 30...the boxed bike with the uber-Riv protective > packaging weighed 35 lbs according to the customs stamp. But as you said, > Joe, you didn't weigh it.And whatever it weighs , it's not a > deal-breaker...in my experience Rivs ride light whatever they weigh > > Now what interests me is what you said about carrying bikes up and down > stairs...because you wouldn't want to leave that pretty Clem locked to a > lightpost. > Yeah, I will admit up and down the stairs is a challenge with mine because > I like one hand free for balance (been like this for quite a number of > years). With my other bikes with diamond frames, the top tube rests on my > shoulder so no problemo. > > Maybe you guys and gals have some tips for schlepping step throughs up and > down stairs...kinda dumb, I know. But the garage is NOT an option for my > Rivendells , and I live in a pretty decent neighborhood but shit happens > as we all know. > > Thanks in advance for any advice in that regard....Ryan > > On Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 2:51:23 PM UTC-5, Joe Bernard wrote: >> >> No idea, but I would guess around 25-27 lbs. without racks. As set up >> with racks mine is a little heavier, but it's pretty easy to carry the >> flight of stairs to my apartment by lifting at the curve of the top bar. >> Lifting up stairs is the only time weight is an equation with this bike; >> when on the pedals she flies! (if you feel like it) > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
