Bike weights - surprising?
Discussion
Roger Irrelevant said:
I bet that if you could make your road bike weigh the same as your mtb but keeping everything else the same (e.g. fill the frame with concrete)
I read an interesting article recently about kids' mountain bikes. A product manager at Trek (I think) had compared the weight ratio of kids to bike with those of adults to bikes, then taken a high end bike in their range and added lead weights inside the frame to create an adult bike of the same ratio as their kids bikes. He then took it into some planning meetings for people to try. The bike weighed something like 32kg!! 
He got his request, and they started producing a range of lighter kids' bikes!
Kermit power said:
I read an interesting article recently about kids' mountain bikes. A product manager at Trek (I think) had compared the weight ratio of kids to bike with those of adults to bikes, then taken a high end bike in their range and added lead weights inside the frame to create an adult bike of the same ratio as their kids bikes. He then took it into some planning meetings for people to try. The bike weighed something like 32kg!!
He got his request, and they started producing a range of lighter kids' bikes!
This has always been one of the raisons d'être of Islabikes.He got his request, and they started producing a range of lighter kids' bikes!
loudlashadjuster said:
..and you can really feel it.
Very true. My daughter's is incredibly light. My eldest son's bike weighs a fair bit more, and cost the same to build up from second hand parts as her Islabike did new, and that includes various parts off my bike which I upgraded so that I could donate the old parts! 
I took that route as my son, despite not yet being 10 can already nail some pretty decent times on trails, so getting him effectively a bike for life where he can just swap the frame and the front chain ring as he gets older made sense.
No prizes for guessing which one goes on the roof if we've got multiple bikes with us though!
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