Sticky required....

hopper1
hopper1 Posts: 4,389
edited December 2009 in Road buying advice
How about a sticky for recording weights of all the blingy bits we buy, or may want to buy.
It'd be a handy BR reference point. :wink:

I don't want to be trudging over to weight weenies...

I wouldn't have had to go out and buy scales today.... :(
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  • maddog 2
    maddog 2 Posts: 8,114
    why is it a trudge to use WW?
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  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    Good idea.

    I've always wanted to know who makes the lightest cable end-caps.
  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    maddog 2 wrote:
    why is it a trudge to use WW?

    Because I'm using Bike Radar!
    If I wanted to use WW, I'd have joined up...
    So, once again, why not have our own?
    :roll:
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  • cal_stewart
    cal_stewart Posts: 1,840
    good shout. and to be fair ww and be a pain to find weights on.
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  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    Cal_Stewart wrote:
    good shout. and to be fair ww and be a pain to find weights on.

    True, and if you do look into it, you'll find so many of the reported weights are years old, now, so not much use!
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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    I've not really seen many people weighing kit on here though - so if you were looking for such and such a figure - you'd prob go to weigh weenies anyway.

    Lets keep the weight geekery over there please ?
  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    cougie wrote:
    I've not really seen many people weighing kit on here though - so if you were looking for such and such a figure - you'd prob go to weigh weenies anyway.

    Lets keep the weight geekery over there please ?

    You haven't seen it, because there's nowhere to keep it in an orderly fashion.
    'Weight geekery', as you put it, is all over BR.... Just open your eyes :shock:
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  • Crankmeister
    Crankmeister Posts: 274
    i think its the right move to do a weight related sticky thread..because if we were not bothered about such matters we would still be dragging our arses about on pennybloodyfarthings would we not?????? so lets develop something thats typically radar and to organic.
  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    It would only work if the poster actually weighed the componant themselves. The manufacturers tend to be rather optimistic on quoted weights, knocking off the VAT so to speak.

    Ribble quote "Raw frame weight" on their specs, which means before the frame has had a primer, two coats of top and a lacquer added.
  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    Smokin Joe wrote:
    It would only work if the poster actually weighed the componant themselves. The manufacturers tend to be rather optimistic on quoted weights, knocking off the VAT so to speak.

    Ribble quote "Raw frame weight" on their specs, which means before the frame has had a primer, two coats of top and a lacquer added.

    True. I just bought a set of scales to weigh some kit that I just got, see here
    There would be no need for all the photos in a sticky... :oops:
    This is a forum, and it serves to help members. A 'what weight' sticky would help me and a lot others, when trying to select certasin items. :wink:
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  • cougie
    cougie Posts: 22,512
    I don't think a sticky is what you'd need - one thread will be useless. You would need a whole forum split into wheels, cranks, pedals, etc etc etc in order for it to be of use.
  • hopper1
    hopper1 Posts: 4,389
    cougie wrote:
    I don't think a sticky is what you'd need - one thread will be useless. You would need a whole forum split into wheels, cranks, pedals, etc etc etc in order for it to be of use.

    Or, could just quote previous list, with an edit! :wink:
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