7 pound road bike

(Michael Baldwin) said:

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Too bad he got the wrong size.

Michael Baldwin said:

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Fugly.

Bill "not at all envious" S.

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Fugly.
Bill "not at all envious" S.

You'll note I wasn't drooling 🙂 I did note one interesting item in the
build list. Pneumatic tubing in place of cable housing. I've worked
with a bunch of that stuff and never thought of using it in place of
cable housing. I thought that was clever.

Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

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Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

Landotter writes

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Too bad he got the wrong size.

Maybe he ordered it 3 blocks down the street from you 🙂

Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 22:49:50 -0400, [email hidden] (Michael Baldwin)

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Dear Michael,

It sounds as if dwarf safety bicycles have managed to lose not quite
two pounds since 1895:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.bicycles.tech/msg/7cd9776b77581c96

In 1889, a production James racing highwheeler weighed 11 lbs, less
that the £20 that it sold for.

Cheers,

Carl Fogel

(Michael Baldwin) said:

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Fugly.
Bill "not at all envious" S.

You'll note I wasn't drooling 🙂 I did note one interesting item in the
build list. Pneumatic tubing in place of cable housing. I've worked
with a bunch of that stuff and never thought of using it in place of
cable housing. I thought that was clever.

Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

It may be clever, but it has to wear out awfully fast.

While this is an interesting design study, the use of an 11-16
cassette implies that this guy isn't riding up anything nearly steep
enough to warrant shaving the axle end caps to save weight.

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(Michael Baldwin) said:

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Fugly.
Bill "not at all envious" S.

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You'll note I wasn't drooling 🙂 I did note one interesting item in the
build list. Pneumatic tubing in place of cable housing. I've worked
with a bunch of that stuff and never thought of using it in place of
cable housing. I thought that was clever.

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Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

It may be clever, but it has to wear out awfully fast.

While this is an interesting design study, the use of an 11-16
cassette implies that this guy isn't riding up anything nearly steep
enough to warrant shaving the axle end caps to save weight.

His lowest gears are a 36-16. He weighs only 150. When I weighed 160
and was younger, I could ride some seriously steep stuff on a 42-21,
on a 22lbs bike with water bottles, tools and everything else. And I
wasn't anything but average. This guy weighs 150 and with tools and
bottles his bike weighs less than 10 pounds. So, if he is a reasonably
good climber, he can probably get up some fairly steep stuff on that
bike.

I personally don't give a [censored] about weight. My bike still weighs 22
lbs plus bottles and tools, and I am at 195 or so. My bike gets made
fun of a lot. There is a LBS owner friend of mine who was checking out
my bike and figured out that, literally, none of the components on my
bike match. Thing is that this was not done intentionally. I put this
bike together from stuff that I found in my box of old components and
stuff that I bought at bikes.marketplace. The LBS owner likes to
tease me about my bike.

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On Mar 9, 11:53 pm, [email hidden] (Michael Baldwin) wrote:

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>Fugly.
>Bill "not at all envious" S.

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You'll note I wasn't drooling 🙂 I did note one interesting item in the
build list. Pneumatic tubing in place of cable housing. I've worked
with a bunch of that stuff and never thought of using it in place of
cable housing. I thought that was clever.

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Best Regards - Mike Baldwin

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It may be clever, but it has to wear out awfully fast.

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While this is an interesting design study, the use of an 11-16
cassette implies that this guy isn't riding up anything nearly steep
enough to warrant shaving the axle end caps to save weight.

His lowest gears are a 36-16. He weighs only 150. When I weighed 160
and was younger, I could ride some seriously steep stuff on a 42-21,
on a 22lbs bike with water bottles, tools and everything else. And I
wasn't anything but average. This guy weighs 150 and with tools and
bottles his bike weighs less than 10 pounds. So, if he is a reasonably
good climber, he can probably get up some fairly steep stuff on that
bike.

I personally don't give a [censored] about weight. My bike still weighs 22
lbs plus bottles and tools, and I am at 195 or so. My bike gets made
fun of a lot. There is a LBS owner friend of mine who was checking out
my bike and figured out that, literally, none of the components on my
bike match. Thing is that this was not done intentionally. I put this
bike together from stuff that I found in my box of old components and
stuff that I bought at bikes.marketplace. The LBS owner likes to
tease me about my bike.

Maybe seriously steep, but not significantly long. My bike and I
weigh a little under 170 (just over 20 for the bike), and I wouldn't
even think about racing up any of the big climbs in New England taller
than a 34-26. I may be pack fill, but I know for a fact the guys
passing me aren't geared too much bigger. Even pro climbing
specialists, which on a regulation 15 pound bike are still lighter
than this guy, run 39-27 for any real hills.

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....and if he did without brakes or gears he could have saved another 300+ g!

Michael Baldwin said:

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More weight could have been saved by cutting off the drops, as they are
so low as to be unusable unless the rider is more Stretch Armstrong than
Lance Armstrong.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

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It you stare it really really hard, it will start to dissolve.

Tom Sherman taking a much deserved break from the "foam hat and obama
did or didn't do" thread says;

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More weight could have been saved by cutting off the
drops, as they are so low as to be unusable
unless the rider is more Stretch Armstrong than Lance Armstrong.
--
Tom Sherman

...but then it wouldn't look like an english racer...

Tom did I ever tell you my kids were hellions. They _broke_ their
Stretch Armstrong doll and hid it under the bed in their room. Seems
Stretch oozed a plasmazoid spew that ate a hole in the the burnt umber
shag. I attribute this ordeal to why the youngest repeated 4th grade
twice! At his high school graduation as he was accepting his diploma, a
sweet old lady behind us said, "Oh look. Even the janitor finally got
his diploma."

Best Regards - Mike Baldwin