How much does your bike weigh ?

avfs19

Looking at buying a Merlin Malt 1 ltd Ed Disc @ £425, Merlin have informed me that this will weigh around 28lbs.

My question is what is a decent weight for a middle of the road ( not pro racer ) xc / trail ride bike?

Does 28lbs seem like a resonable weight?

Cheers ,,,

Andy B

28lbs is a pretty good weight for a £400 bike, most £400 bikes will weigh a little more like 30lbs.

I have an Orange Gringo which weighs in at 29lbs (total cost inc upgrades £700)

Matteeboy

About 25lbs (some have said 24lbs but I don't believe them) for the 2007 Stumpy, close to 30lbs for the Rockhopper.
The old Stumpy (steel, fully rigid, loads of upgrades) feels as light as the newer Stumpy but not sure if it is - very stripped down machine though.

British Eagle must be the wrong side of 30lbs but it's pretty small.

supersonic

It is good for the money, but wheter they are telling porkies or not ;-)

My Zaskar is 22-23lbs depending on tyres fitted, Idrive about 30, Ruckus 31

Chaka Ping

Sounds a good weight for the price.

clarkson

the i-drive is 31lbs and the enduro is 34.2.

my commuter mountian bike for the record is a rather portly 39lbs

The Big Cheese

Indian Fire Trail - 21 lbs

Attack Trail about 34 lbs

wild card - will probably weigh about 37-39 lb (will need to weight it when it's all together)

sparrowlegs78

Merlin Malt 2 ,19" frame 28lbs ...accordin to me bathroom scales

teacherman

Kona Caldera with some upgrades 27lbs - light enough for me so yeah that's a hell of a weight for the price!

zero303

Orange 5 Pro - between 28lb and 29lb - feels way lighter when riding though

cunning-stunt

I've bumped my Marin hardtail up to 31/32lb by fitting a Deity stem,Azonic strip bar and Halo Freedom rims,but it's a fun bike so irrelevant.

My old Trek 7000 hardtail which cost £800 back in '97 weighed 27.5lbs,so yeah,I'd say a £400 hardtail @ 28lb is reasonable.
There's plenty out there at that price point that weigh a lot more..

Father Faff

My old Orange P7 with 80mm of front travel is 28.5lbs (rim brakes) - £200 second-hand. My new Commencal Meta 5.5.1 at 10 times the price is about 28lbs but then it does have discs and full-sus and can beat the average Lakeland rockfest into submission a lot easier than the Orange can.

cjw

Scott is a touch over 21lb now with new tyres.

The Spiderman

My Giant XTC SX was 28lbs when it was new,which was a tad heavy given the price.
With the upgraded XT kit,ligther bars,stem,sadddle,tyres and Rebas its currently around or a shade under 25lbs,and with the new wheels will possibly be nearer 24lbs.

So a good weight for the price.My old v braked Rockhopper was around 28lb,too.

ChingfordMarin

my newly built Nail Trail 08 Marin is now 24.5lbs

The Big Cheese

Thats a very good weight for the Marin!

supersonic

I had a Marin once Cheesey ;-)

ChingfordMarin

Cheesey it was the frame you found on Fleabay. Got it all put together now. Just need to upload the pictures now. Will do it tonight..

Marin Nail Trail 2008 Frame 17"
Full Shimano XT 2008 drivetrain
Reba SL 2007 100mm
Race Face Evolve XC Stem
Race Face Next SL XC Carbon Low Riser Handlebar 31.8mm
Panaracer Cinders 2.1
HOPE PRO11 - MAVIC XM719 built by Merlin
Hope Mono Minis 180 Front and 160 Rear
Hope Headset
Charge Spoon Saddle

Seat post to be replaced by a nice Race Face SL soon

dave.spencer

my o6 stumpy ht (with a few upgrades).tips the bathroom scales at just under 25 lb, which feels very good on the trail.

big_southern_jesse

My Giant 840 (£440) tips the bathroom scales at about 31 - 31 lbs. But it's 9 years old, it's a 23.5" frame, and I'm 16.5 stone. Quite frankly it's me that has to lose the weight! :shock:

So anything in the 20-something range seems good.

clarkson

well, depending on the price. my GT is 7 years old now but was 2000 when new, so is fairly heavy. next upgrade= the frame.

dav1

If i have weighed it right my bike as 27.5lb, a bit heavy for an XC rig but because it was a cheap bike i can easily kill some more weight.

Amos

My Titus MotoLite is just under 28lbs, and thats with mud on the tyres :P

toasty

Going by the bathroom scales:

Stumpy HT - 26lbs (F80X, M4 frame, thomson stem+post, let down by crossrides + spesh revo sport tyres a bit)

FSRxc - 30lbs (roughly what I expected, upgraded bottom end model, swapped to Reba SL forks, Juicy 3 SLs and notubes'd it up!)

My stumpy was initially 27lbs which disappointed me a bit, before realising it had a full water bottle on, weighing pretty much a straight pound. Is there any cheap, accurate way of measuring this? I bought a cheapo import scales from ebay but they were dire, my bike varied between 5 lbs and 80 lbs. The expensive ones seem a bit much for scales

BlackSpur

Take your bike to your local Weight Watchers session? They'd probably have pretty accurate scales.

toasty

Hey I said the wheels let it down a bit, I don't think it needs to join weight watchers quite yet!

rob cole

my freeride bike is 34.9lb

my bmx is 23.9lb

my cyclocross bike is 20.4lb

hitman1978

I ride a orange patriot for everything. 39 pounds depending on tyres
bh