Heaviest Bike

mrc1

After renting an absolute beast of a bike last weekend in frankfurt, I thought I would see if I broke any records.

It was a Kettler City Shopper model, similar to the link below but a few years older, with a much heftier triple link rear "suspension" lay out that had more in common with a landrover.

http://www.spoke.co.uk/Kettler.htm

The bike also had a built in lock mechanism, pointless front suspension fork, standard full mud guards, massively over engineered braze ons for the included pump, two dynamos and three lights, an adjustable stem, in hub gears with coaster brake, some sort of schwalbe "puncture proof" tyres, a massive rear rack and a steel kick stand.

Having lugged this monster up the stairs to get it into my flat I decided to stick it on the scales and it weighed.......................42.5 Kilos!!!

So everyone please post the heaviest bike you have had the misfortune to own/rent/borrow and see if you can beat the above!

The rules are pretty simple, but for the avoidance of doubt the below do not count:

1. Standard specification bikes only - ie no additional weight included from panniers etc

2. The bike must be a normal bike - ie no three wheelers/electric bikes/your bike with a kids bike attached to the seatpost/tandems

I'm pretty happy that my nag is odds on favourite

UndercoverElephant

I think you've started and ended your thread right there!

I used to complain about my BSO mountain bike, and that was 18.6 Kg. I've since got my BeOne, which the listed weight was 9.3 Kg, precisely half

il_principe

I saw this heavy beast the other day, could barely lift it:

Mountainboy2465

That is pretty awesome but it wouldn't surprise me if one of the various push irons used by the Swiss or Austrian army comes quite close!

Clever Pun

Il Principe wrote:

I saw this heavy beast the other day, could barely lift it:

looks about 16 1/2 stone all together I'd say

DonDaddyD

Urgh, look at the carpet!

il_principe

DonDaddyD wrote:

Urgh, look at the carpet!

Nice try.

Is the floor reinforced?

sarajoy

Good God, I hope for your sake that Frankfurt was completely flat?

Think my last bike was 17-18Kg, I thought that was heavy! Though I suspect the new one is at least 12 maybe even pushing 15 now what with racks and guards and whatever else...

Jamey

I don't know if I can beat the actual bike weight but I reckon that with everything taken into account I have the heaviest bike for daily commuting.

Here's what I'm riding on every day, as standard:

Bike itself:
- Largest size (61cm) Specialized Tricross Sport Triple.
- 700 x 32 Marathon Plus tyres.
- Rigida Sputnik rim (pretty much heaviest 700c rim you can get) on rear wheel.
- Rack and panniers, containing...

Right Pannier:
- Largest orange Kryptonite D-Lock you can get (the extra long one)
- Two cable locks, 1.8m each I think.
- Puncture bag, with full-size chain splitter, multitool, three metal tyre levers and spare 700 x 32 tube.
- Overshoes.
- Mini track pump.

Left Pannier:
- Jeans, T-shirt, pants and socks
- Packed lunch in tupperware box.
- Wallet, keys, phone, pass.
- Assos cream.
- Anything else (occasionally bring groceries home from work, and this morning brought my Park pedal spanner in for a mate to use).

So that's the bike weight every day. My weight is even worse, I'm massive and wearing a lot of layers at the moment due to the weather.

il_principe

I must admit that my commuting bag often weighs more than my Kinesis SS commuter.

Aidy

mrc1 wrote:

Having lugged this monster up the stairs to get it into my flat I decided to stick it on the scales and it weighed.......................42.5 Kilos!!!

Jeez, that's like, more than 2/3rds of my body weight.

mrc1

Haha - the weight of the bike coupled with the dynamos had the top speed pegged at around 9-10mph!

Frankfurt's best bike however is:

http://www.bierbike-frankfurt.de/rund-ums-bierbike.html

A load of us rented this and it was brilliant fun in such a sombre city! 20 litres of beer, a driver and a pedal power bar! Brilliant fun!

bails87

sarajoy wrote:

Good God, I hope for your sake that Frankfurt was completely flat?

If it wasn't to start with, then it would have been after that beast had flattened all the hills out!

supersonic

42.5 kg? Surely you mean pounds?

roger_merriman

Jamey wrote:

I don't know if I can beat the actual bike weight but I reckon that with everything taken into account I have the heaviest bike for daily commuting.

unless it's over 50lb it's not, big green is 50lb before I put anything in her....

mrc1

supersonic wrote:

42.5 kg? Surely you mean pounds?

No no, I mean KILOS!!!

supersonic

This fella, though I'd only commute on it if I worked in a quarry and had to get to the bottom quickly, weighs...70lbs.

mrc1

supersonic wrote:

This fella, though I'd only commute on it if I worked in a quarry and had to get to the bottom quickly, weighs...70lbs.

Whack a couple of kilos worth of steel kick stand and a steel rack on the back and I might have a worthy challenger

supersonic

Is quite an industrial looking frame!

nicklouse

42 kilos!

and i thought my Tank was heavy.

prawny

I'm going to have to weigh my saracen, I think it might be made of pig iron. I can't belive I sold my old chromo tequesta and kept this one

biondino

I saw a fella today on Kings Road with two hard-case Samsonite suitcases attached to his pannier racks! And he was going at a fair pace, too.

itboffin

prawny wrote:

I'm going to have to weigh my saracen, I think it might be made of pig iron. I can't belive I sold my old chromo tequesta and kept this one

Tee hee I have a saracen raw 3 aka the Beast II it's weighs in just over 35lb :shock: changing the wheels, tyres, BB, groupset knocked a couple of lb off, it's still a "Beast"

Oh yes the saddle as well, that thing was a boat

The newer version 2009 has better specs which frankly wouldn't have been hard

MonkeyMonster

biondino wrote:

I saw a fella today on Kings Road with two hard-case Samsonite suitcases attached to his pannier racks! And he was going at a fair pace, too.

Once up to speed I bet he can maintain it fairly easily - its breaking that might cause issues

il_principe

itboffin wrote:

The newer version 2009 has better specs which frankly wouldn't have been hard

prawny

itboffin wrote:

prawny wrote:

I'm going to have to weigh my saracen, I think it might be made of pig iron. I can't belive I sold my old chromo tequesta and kept this one

Tee hee I have a saracen raw 3 aka the Beast II it's weighs in just over 35lb :shock: changing the wheels, tyres, BB, groupset knocked a couple of lb off, it's still a "Beast"

Oh yes the saddle as well, that thing was a boat

The newer version 2009 has better specs which frankly wouldn't have been hard

This is my bad boy



I doubt it's a heavy as your beast, it did nearly pull my arm out of it's socket when I was carrying it through the station on wednesday though.

shouldbeinbed

Mine's a hefty chunk too - no weight given on the tech specs (always a bad sign) its got hub everything, rack, guards silly rear wheel lock, suspension. It looks supiciously like the frankfurt ones but I'm pretty sure I'd be safe hidden behind it in the event of a small nuclear explosion

itboffin

Il Principe wrote:

itboffin wrote:

The newer version 2009 has better specs which frankly wouldn't have been hard

I did try a sell it a while back, no takers and to be honest the groupset and upgrades will be going on to a new Kinesis frame ready for the Feb/Mar snow fall :shock: and more Ridgeway fun in the dry

supersonic

Let's be honest, put an Orange sticker on iot and you could double the price and would sell instantly...

itboffin

supersonic wrote:

Let's be honest, put an Orange sticker on iot and you could double the price and would sell instantly...

That would be .... just wrong!