Do you know the weight of your bike and kit?

[Adventurer]

Being stripping my bike down to give it a good grease and clean. Thought I would weigh the bike naked (not me) without any kit. It weighs 11.9kg. Is that an OK weight for a base weight?

I'm hopefully planning for a weekend away next month so I'll weigh the bike again with a weekend setup. Or I might just be sad enough to load up just to check the weight.

I thought it might be an idea to know other bikes weightsto give an 'idea' of weights

[Taylor]

Fully dressed my bike weighs about 42-44 lbs for summer weight.
No idea what my winter weights are.

[Joshvegas]

All my bikes weigh 8kgs on the nose*.

By not weighing them they remain that weight regardless of components.

*except my trailstar. What does the moon weight?

[rufus748]

Gave up weighing mine years ago.
It has to be comfortable, functional, reliable and fun to ride (not necessarily in that order).
Only measure them on smiles a mile.

[Teetosugars]

No.

[jameso]

Bikes, no idea. Individual parts/touring kit, generally yes, approximately. If there's nothing that's not justifying the weight with comfort, toughness etc the total is ok as it is.
12kg is sensible, light even. Pretty confident my steel Jones is a fair bit more than that.

[whitestone]

Yes.

Sometimes it matters, often it doesn't.

[Justchris]

10.8kg. Without bags on.

Unfortunately it's not the bikes weight I am struggling with. But mine.

[ootini]

Because my kit is evolving and changing on nearly every trip, the answer is no, I did weigh my first MTB bikepacking setup here: https://bikepackingonabudget.wordpress. ... wn-a-hill/

My KTM bike with dry bags and seatpack, bottle etc came in at 17kg, and I had 6.5kg on a ruck sack on my back. Heavy, but it worked. I've now dropped the ruck sack entirely and replaced some heavy kit with lighter kit. I reckon 17kg is still about right for the bike with everything.

[Bearbonesnorm]

If it's any help, the lightest set-up recorded at the WRT Weigh-in was I recall, just below 32lb. The heaviest was 136lb ... somewhere in between should be fine

[whitestone]

136Lb Were they smuggling dwarves across the border?

My bike in trail mode weighs 12.7Kg, for bikepacking it weighs a bit less as I replace things like the Reverb dropper post. Kit can range from 2.5Kg to 12.5Kg, not including food and water, depending on time of year, state of mind, phase of moon, etc.

[Zippy]

I know the weight, quite accurately in fact, if I'm interested. Yes spreadsheets of kit weight exist...

My BB200 setups have always been less than the weight of just my full sus bike (trek fuel ex9) on it's own - but that's a pretty minimal setup... In fact I didn't weigh my ridgeway double setup, that literally was just my framebag full of food and spare clothes in my jersey pockets!


197 (16-07-2015) by Chris Reeves, on Flickr
Ridgeway Double - Halfway In.

[Lawmanmx]

my bike weighs in at a girthy (Fat) 36.4lbs and the last kit I used was 22lbs but I recon that will be much lighter this season

im the weak link in my setup tho

[Trail-rat]

my coast to coast bike and kit weighed 34lbs.

I did start with a 24lb ti rigid bike though.... so there is heaps of room to shave weight off my set up in terms of the sleeping kit..

my fat bike i did the inner cairngorm loop on was 45lb....it was a struggle on the climbs in comparison the shoulder of bynack mor tried to kill me.. the fat bike weighs 32lbs so had slightly more kit but then it was november and forcast for frost - it was -7 that night.

[slarge]

Bike is 9 kg ( both 29er and 26er SS), and the kit is light, but i haven't weighed it for years. It does depend whether it's a summer single night or winter multi night trip. Water is always something I carry a lot of.....

[voodoo_simon]

Bike is 27lbs and in the summer, my kit weighed 10lbs without water, so not a bad setup for a steel bike That's the weight of my fatbike naked My winter setup on the fatbike would be easily over 55lbs!

[GregMay]

less than me. until i get svelte enough, im not worrying too much about bike weight, or kit.

[HaYWiRe]

My XC MTB weighed 11.6 naked brand new, but its just a cheapish ALU hardtail. I've been shaving some weight with a few new parts, brakes, swapped X3 for x1 and ditched the front shifter, ect. A decent wheelset should save some weight in the future.

Kit to go on it usually comes to just under 5kg w/o food/water, but 700g of that is just medicals and emergency supplies

My road bike weighs 9.4kg, quite heavy by most road standards but its comfy and tough wheels.
Kit for road touring (b&b) comes in at 1.9kg minus food/water

All weights for summer as I dont quite have the bags (or balls) to try anything in winter weather yet

[atk]

Seems relevant: http://jwookieone.com/2016/02/18/little-things/

[Scattamah]

A very rudimentary investigation shows Lois is around the 10Kg mark. Could be a touch under or over...tricky to see the scales whilst holding her. At last years WRT she weighed in around 18Kg with full kit and 1 x 700ml water bottle on the bike. I could do with knocking 5Kg off me now.

Greetz

S.

[fatbikephil]

At the Highland Trail last year someone had a set of scales and was weighing bikes. As I had an Ice Cream Truck with a load biased towards luxury, I stayed well clear. I can report that on the three big HAB climbs in was f***ing heavy....

[slarge]

Just weighed my pack with sleeping bag, tarp, bivvy, mat, socks, hat, jacket and cooking stuff in and it was 3kg. No water, food or spares though - that's another 2kg or so.

[Zippy]

At the Highland Trail last year someone had a set of scales and was weighing bikes.

That was me for curiosity sake. Josh Ibbets bike was heavier than I was expecting!

[Ian]

52lbs 6oz wet

... I'm sure it wasn't that heavy when I set off in dry conditions on Thursday

[GregMay]

Seems relevant: http://jwookieone.com/2016/02/18/little-things/

Interesting change of tack from the man who is anal about his kit weights! But he is right. And still flipping fast.

I get the feeling Jefe may be in Banff later this year.