I dig Jan’s take on bike weight: your bike shouldn’t weigh more than it has to. As long as you have a good understanding of the bikes purpose and your riding style, your gut will know better than a bathroom scale.
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 12:50 PM Piaw Na <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2 cents: don't get carried away with frame weight, especially when > comparing steel frames. I'd focus more on geometry. I wanted my Roadini > build to scratch the same itch but the long wheelbase didn't align with my > idea of a zippy, skinny-tire road bike. > > > Geometry is by far the most important thing on a road bike. And I include > the diameter of the tubes as well as the wall thickness. Having said that, > I don't think I'd ever consider weight unimportant. If you're a heavy > rider, maybe it matters less, but the lighter you are the more weight > matters. At 140 pounds or so (going down to 130 pounds when touring), the > difference between a 30 pound MTB and a 24 pound Roadini is very > noticeable. Lighter bikes also mean I have an easier time placing the > wheels precisely on a single track trail. They're also way more fun to > ride. Finally, if you ever have to fly with the bike, United airlines has a > 50 pound limit for those of us who're not premiere or paying for business > class international flights. A lighter bike lets you fly with the bike in a > sturdy trico ironcase (weight 30 pounds!) without having to pay the $200 > oversize/overweight penalty. I do everything I can to shave the weight of a > bike down without sacrificing reliability. I simply don't have any excess > power to waste! > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/tAas6urcOwg/unsubscribe > . > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c7b51cd1-fd21-4da7-8820-4e78d9c3f2a4n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/c7b51cd1-fd21-4da7-8820-4e78d9c3f2a4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CAGnPyMGmm3JhOqs5X4t_hd8uwjdLX7oXP_sSQpTF5xA7WExaVw%40mail.gmail.com.
