Bike & Frame Weight

jesus, freestyle...forget weight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe6KqdJndcU

I assumed that, because of it's weight, steel wouldn't be ideal for a trick fixie...maybe i'm wrong.

did you already hit your head?

Popcorn. I suspect this thread has legs.
Just sayin'

+1

Just in case you're not a troll, I'll just say it:

• Look at trick bikes using Google.

• They are built to do tricks.

• They need to be strong enough to withstand impacts.

• They will not be 'light'.

what everyone else has said -

don't be concerned about weight for the moment... if you're struggling with a heavy fixed freestyler try to start on bmx to build up your strength and built up to it or maybe a 24" dmr sidekick or something, no reason why you can't build up a little jump bike fixed gear although be careful to get your gearing right!

or go danny stylee trials...

Well I have a steel frame atm, it's way too heavy. I assumed that, because of it's weight, steel wouldn't be ideal for a trick fixie...maybe i'm wrong. But yeah, I guess it'll need to be prepared to take a pounding.

Ever considered the fact that your skills might be lacking somewhat? You see scrawny kids hooning massively heavy bikes around all the time at any trails, d-jumps or park. Technique and muscle memory is what you need I suspect.

^^ what Tilover said.

did you already hit your head?

Do you assume everyone possesses the ultimate knowledge of fixies? I'm unsure, i've searched (currently researching), I wanted a few opinions on the matter, so I asked on a FIXED GEAR FORUM. Apologies, i'll ask Sheldon next time.

Oh and no, it'd wouldn't matter if I had; I wear a helmet :)

Thanks to the guys who answered with a helpful, legitimate answer.

old school thread

all of mine are under 20lbs (9kgs) but not by a lot, the mtb might be the lightest, probably about 18lb?

No, but the forum does assume the ability to use a search engine, and that people clever enough to type a sentance have a least a grain of common sense.

Ever considered the fact that your skills might be lacking somewhat? You see scrawny kids hooning massively heavy bikes around all the time at any trails, d-jumps or park. Technique and muscle memory is what you need I suspect.

Yes of course my skills are lacking, I road dirt a couple of years ago but have been interested in road/street since I started uni. I'm looking for a bike to build up that technique.

No, but the forum does assume the ability to use a search engine, and that people clever enough to type a sentance have a least a grain of common sense.

^^^^^ Look up.

I'm out.
It's just too easy/tempting. Good luck with your new ride. Hope whatever material you go for means you just get out and enjoy riding.

A light frame weighs less than the one you have, and a heavy one weighs more. s'easy.

.............have a big poo before you go for a ride.

Weight's important for a small guy like me, a wheelies out of the question with the weight of my steel frame!

truefax. there's no way I could wheelie with my shitty bmx as a kid.

I used to wheelie my rayleigh burner down the street until i fell backwards and smashed my head open. Last wheelie I ever pulled.

old school thread

all of mine are under 20lbs (9kgs) but not by a lot, the mtb might be the lightest, probably about 18lb?

Carbon/alu roadie - 6.9Kg
Steel fixed 8.0 - 8.5 Kg
Steel 29er 8.5 - 9 Kg
Alu commuter ~10Kg
Ti fatbike ~ 13Kg

Weirdly the 29er feels the lightest. Which I think is an effect of the traction it has.
The Fatbike is getting premo parts, and is designed for floataion. Maybe I should fit armbands.

CJay, the problem is that most FG and SS bikes are not primarily concerned about weight. It's a secondary concern at best.

Main concerns by type:

Track frames = stiffness, rigidity, conformance to rules (UCI, NJS, etc).
BMX = strength and ability to take abuse, reasonable cost
CX = strength and ability to take abuse
Polo = ability to take abuse, low cost

The only disciplines in which weight outstrip all other concerns as being the #1 priority is road racing (including TTs and criteriums).

And for that, there is a fantastic resource on the internet that records weights of frames, components, etc. It's called weight weenies: http://weightweenies.starbike.com/

You're asking us to consider frames which never had weight as a primary concern, by a factor that isn't critical to a bike's performance within one of these fields.

Sure you can build an urban fixie and spend a lot of money to get a light bike... but you haven't actually indicated that you have a cost concern either.

If the assumptions above hold, that you want light and don't care for cost, then why not just go and have a custom frame built in carbon to your specifications? No? Too expensive. Well you're hardly providing enough information to help you here.

You don't even say how you want to use the bike, yet FG & SS covers so many different disciplines. I'm confident you don't mean BMX, but you haven't bloody said.

Sheesh.

You want us to help, you provide not enough info, and you don't even understand the size of the question.

.............have a big poo before you go for a ride.

That comment seems to regularly get made. How heavy is the average poo and is the weight saving worth the subsequent piles issues from forcing out poos before their time?

Us folk that own light bikes. Can also poo. So the point is void.

Us folk that own light bikes. Can also poo. So the point is void.

You sure? I though people obsessed with bike weight were so anally retentive that they couldn't poo.

This build is for a freestyle fixie, not road, therefore weights slightly more important.

He's after a bike for rad skidz, barspinz and ridiculously small, awkward looking bunnyhops from the sounds of it.
Not like you to slip up and miss info Velocio!

So yeah, weight should be the least of his concerns.

Totally missed that.

Weight still isn't a concern.

Just go to 14 Bikes and pick up anything in there.

Job done.

Carbon roadie - 5.85 kg
Alu 3-speeder - 9.40 kg

Love them both.