Bikes full of lard
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Not sure what the point of this post might be (but i won’t let that stop me – sorry everyone) but I just had my commuter bike in to the shop for its break-in tune-up, and asked them to put it on the scale for me, and HOLY SMOKES! This thing, with empty panniers weighs 49 pounds – !!!! I sort of knew that internally geared hubs add a bunch of weight to a bike, but this bike weighs two or more of my other ones. No wonder I can’t get the thing up a hill! I note that almost all bike manufacturers (I’m calling out Cannondale specifically, not because my offender is a Cannondale, but because sometime recently they went to the trouble of articulating a “why we won’t tell you what the bike weighs on our spec sheet”) don’t post bike weights any more, well not if they’re not bragging that the Model XSSL frame only weighs 850 grams (“before paint” – ?) It sure would have made me think twice about buying this sled, since it’s rare that you don’t have to go up a hill somewhere, even if it’s just the Frederick Douglass bridge (he says huffing and puffing.)
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