Weights of bikes

[Leighcal]

Just looking through a few threads and noticed the weight on some of the bikes. Now the bikes I've seen should for me be much lighter than my kona hahanna which weighs in at 21lb. I weighed it just to satisfy curiosity and was very surprised. It has no aftermarket parts and cheap tyres which weigh a ton. Then I look at these bikes on here what have had loads spent on them only to come in at around the same weight as my kona. Kinda makes me wonder why spend so much to get the same weight as a off the shelf bike?

Leigh

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

No hahanna ever weighed close to 21 pounds, in fact, I'm not sure any factory kona did?

A standard Hahanna, depending on year will be 26-27lb+.

my 1993 kilauea is almoat stock, and around 24lb, while may almost stock 93 fire mountain is over 27!

 

[jimo746]

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I'd check your scales. Unless it's a tiny frame I can't see how it could be so light Tbh?

 

[cce]

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I'd check your scales. Unless it's a tiny frame I can't see how it could be so light Tbh?

Even a teeny-tiny frame is maybe 0.5 to 1lb lighter than the "middle" size they tend to use for weights.

My Merlin is 21lb or so, it's noticably light although it isnt really built for weight, it would've been a £4000 ultrabike in its day.

 

[jimo746]

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I'd check your scales. Unless it's a tiny frame I can't see how it could be so light Tbh?

Even a teeny-tiny frame is maybe 0.5 to 1lb lighter than the "middle" size they tend to use for weights.

Explain this then...

 

[Gaddmeister]

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Is that an XTR chainset?

 

[FluffyChicken]

Just looking through a few threads and noticed the weight on some of the bikes. Now the bikes I've seen should for me be much lighter than my kona hahanna which weighs in at 21lb. I weighed it just to satisfy curiosity and was very surprised. It has no aftermarket parts and cheap tyres which weigh a ton. Then I look at these bikes on here what have had loads spent on them only to come in at around the same weight as my kona. Kinda makes me wonder why spend so much to get the same weight as a off the shelf bike?

Leigh

Your scales are wrong, what are you using?

 

[Leighcal]

Scales I've used are ones at my local scrapyard/weighbridge not the big scales they weigh cars on but the smaller ones they use for non ferrous metals. They are calibrated weekly. I may have got them on their 6th day before they were 're-calibrated though so I'll get it checked again when I go later today. I have some baggage scales that I can try when I find them and some expensive bathroom scales that I've weighed myself on many times and my weight hasn't been any different to the ones I use in my local gym so I'll try all 3 and see what weight comes back as.

 

[ti_pin_man]

remind me not to sell any metal to your local yard, seems like they are conning their suppliers. jokes aside theres lots of different scales and bathroom ones are notoriously rubbish at accuracy. But even talking ballpark the weight quoted seems light for that bike unless maybe its a rigid bike but even then ... I had my ibis at about 20lbs with a sus fork and down to 16.75 with a rigid fork and tweek of build. The question though was why would you ... the weight isn't the only factor in deciding which bike to buy, ride/geometry/components blah blah blah might determine your decision, or just because you want to be different.

 

[My_Teenage_Self]

1994 Kona Hahanna; 27.5lb.

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