Losing 6kg Worth It??

NWLondoner

Would you consider upgrading and loosing 6 kg in bike weight worthwhile?

Would you notice much difference?

redddraggon

6Kg is a hell of a lot. If I lost 6Kg off my bike it'd weigh only 1.5Kg.

I'm guessing your bike is about 15Kg? That's heavy, put it on a diet.

NWLondoner

Fully equipped around 18 kg. I have front suspension plus heavy 38c Schwalbe M+ tyres

The bike minus tyres and other stuff is about 15.5 kg.


The bike i am planning on getting is around 9.5kg (without pedals) So once tyres 25c SM+/shimano MX30 pedals and lights/GPS/race blades are added should be no more than 12 kg.

I'm just trying to work out whether the £900 outlay would be worth it.

TheGreatGatsby

I'm with red. Any upgrade that looses 6kg off your bike or yourself is definiatly wirth the effort.

Gats

redddraggon

NWLondoner wrote:

I'm just trying to work out whether the £900 outlay would be worth it.

Nope. You can get a proper road bike that weighs 8kg for that much.

NWLondoner

redddraggon wrote:

NWLondoner wrote:

I'm just trying to work out whether the £900 outlay would be worth it.

Nope. You can get a proper road bike that weighs 8kg for that much.

The bike itself is £600. The extra £300 is for the other items i need to buy. Clothes,tyres,pedals etc

term1te

I lost 7 kg over Christmas, no Santa didn't bring me any super light bike bling, pneumonia. When I recovered I thought the loss of almost 90% of my bike weight would see me flying along. No, felt like death after half a mile, put nearly all the weight back on now and almost back to pre-Christmas form.

Weight off the bike can only help, weight off rider needs to be in a slightly more controlled fashion!

bonk man

Ride a fixed wheel [or single freewheel if you aint man enough] if you want a light bike.
Even a crappy old steel bike is happy with the gears removed. I am going out on my fixed Dolan [ cheapy one] on tomorrows club run, 60 miles on a 66 inch gear on a bike that weighs about 21 lbs ........... oh the bliss... who needs 10 speed and silly gear levers

some of my bikes have gears

Aidanw

Remember loosing weight can be dangerous! Make sure you set it free in a controlled environment!

Losing weight on the other hand...

il_principe

6KG!! Jaysus, my bike would weigh less than 1kg if I lost that off it, what the hell are you riding, is it made out of concrete?!

meagain

jashburnham wrote:

6KG!! Jaysus, my bike would weigh less than 1kg if I lost that off it, what the hell are you riding, is it made out of concrete?!

But at 15lbs, yours is presumably made from silk and air!