WHAT DOES MY BIKE REALLY WEIGH??
Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2003 8:53 pm
Hi Weenies,
Have any of you run into the following situation? I custom specified my Giant carbon bike and the store did all the assembly. When I received it I had no chance to weigh the individual components. At that time, I did not have a scale that could handle up to 16 to 20 lbs. to weigh the full bike.
So I took the bike to my local high end bike store and asked if they would weigh it. They had a spring scale hung in the middle of the sales area which looked like if could do the job. The weight came out to 15.5 lbs. I was happy because I expected closer to 16 lbs. A few weeks later, I bought a digital hanging scale (see my post, "Scales, I Need Scales") after a fair amount of research. I took my new scale to work to test its accuracy and found it to be right on the money.
You know the next part of the story. I weighed my bike and found it actually weighed 16.12 lbs. In other words, the bike store scale was over .5 lb optimistic. I called the store and related my sad tale. They were indifferent claiming the scale was offered as a customer convenience and accuracy was not guaranteed. OK, granted.
Here's the bottom line: be careful of scales of which are not of confirmed accuracy. At least I now know how much my bike actually weighs even if it is not as little as I would like.[/b]
Have any of you run into the following situation? I custom specified my Giant carbon bike and the store did all the assembly. When I received it I had no chance to weigh the individual components. At that time, I did not have a scale that could handle up to 16 to 20 lbs. to weigh the full bike.
So I took the bike to my local high end bike store and asked if they would weigh it. They had a spring scale hung in the middle of the sales area which looked like if could do the job. The weight came out to 15.5 lbs. I was happy because I expected closer to 16 lbs. A few weeks later, I bought a digital hanging scale (see my post, "Scales, I Need Scales") after a fair amount of research. I took my new scale to work to test its accuracy and found it to be right on the money.
You know the next part of the story. I weighed my bike and found it actually weighed 16.12 lbs. In other words, the bike store scale was over .5 lb optimistic. I called the store and related my sad tale. They were indifferent claiming the scale was offered as a customer convenience and accuracy was not guaranteed. OK, granted.
Here's the bottom line: be careful of scales of which are not of confirmed accuracy. At least I now know how much my bike actually weighs even if it is not as little as I would like.[/b]
