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DW Weigh-in 2008
Here's the final tally in the Dirtworks weigh in night before the race.
In case you can't read the beer stained document above, and to put them in order, here you go (all Kg of course):
Hardtails
Stuart - Custom Viper: 10.200
mtbasn.alex - Scale 35: 11.120
Heckler - Crack+Fail HT: 12.100
Bernd - Olivella: 13.740
Dualies
Steve 01 - Mojo: 11.490
Whisperer - Titus Racer-X: 11.510
Gazza - Epic - 11.600
Buck - Giant Trance X0: 11.700
Tien - Giant Anthem: 11.700
Carlgroover - Giant Anthem LE: 12.060
Rob - Rush 3 Special: 12.220
Cupcake - Stumpy Expert Pro: 12.340
Damien - BMC Fourstroke '08: 12.520
Harry - Stumpy Elite: 12.780 (Considerably lighter after the race).
Mildred - Specialized Epic: 13.120
Even - Scott MC40: 13.180
Andy Bloot - Stumpy Expert: 13.310
Lozza - Yeti 575: 13.500
Lorrie - Broken Stump: 14.230 (with extra replacement parts from Bunnings).
Pikey - Reign 02 200G: 15.180
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....you don't need a light bike to be a race contender!
Sorry.....did i just hear...Pikey...heavy bike ....but he placed quite well in the field!!! go figure
Anon
Mr Pikey, well done!
My bike's name is "Olivella" my kids named it, Olivia + Isabella...
Bernd
Go the Trance X0
Inevitably some didn't even fit on the sheet. Can we get the braniacs to calculate weight adjusted times?
I should point out though that the lightest bike was handicapped by
a) the heaviest rider, but more importantly
b) the weight of the specialised epic that it dragged around for 50km
(oh I'm dead when she sees this)
I think it's time Tien changed bikes
What's with Giant's XC race bike being heavier than the Trance 5" travel trail bike
Is my bike that heavy! Flip! time to upgrade me thinks. But with a new wheelset and rear cluster i should be able to drop 1500grams.
http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/motobecane/f... i wish!
Lorrie
So Lorrie, what was the break this year? Which bolts did you forget to do up
Forgive me if I'm mistaken but your number seemed to be pretty well fixed, I'm sure I saw you coming over the Pyrmont bridge with your number still attached in the middle of the following week! superglued rather than cable tied?
PHEW!
My bike behaved this race!!! Just a broken link in the middle of a race but that was easy fixed.
Lorrie
So the mention of Bunnings on the bit of paper above is a furphy?
Doesn't all Specialized gear come from Bunnings?
Buck,
i might try to put a BMX frame on the Giant Anthem, that should improve the weight and it suits my height!
Yeti ASR carbon, Trek Top Fuel 9....drooling....
Tien.
Rob was trying to be funny when he recorded the weights of the bikes... You're new bike must be pretty darn light for what it does!
I didn't write that... I'm sure the parts came from somewhere far more shonky than Bunnings!
Do you know something I don't? Unless you're talking about the trials bike I'm trying to build... that's very light at the moment, too light in one particular spot, it has a little too much metal taken off the inner of the top of the head tube, so much so that the top race rattles around in the frame... taking that back to the shop this weekend for a rant ;-(.
3rd heaviest!! (plus liams)
We should have the scales of truth out on every event
Loz
Sure it starts with weighing your bike once (I'm just going to do it once for interest you tell yourself), the next thing you know you're a full blown weight weenie with spreadsheets of bike part weights, turning up to the LBS with a set of scales when you buy new tyres so you can get the lightest one in stock of a particular make, cutting down foam grips...
... Alchemist knows too much about this kind of thing!
Nah, I've seen it happen to too many friends. I choose parts based more on their shininess rather than their weight (or lack there of)
Deraileurs aren't shiny?
Not shiny enough, they also require maintenance.
I must confess to weighing a new fork recently, but am now a little scared. 550g (uncut) is possibly too light.
My new roadie I'm building (well spec-ing at this stage) is looking at weighing in at about 6.6kgs - complete bike.
I am looking to try and build a new engine for my bike should be able to remove 12 - 15kgs that should help with the hills.
My new seat weighs more than that.
A bike that light has no chance of bouncing off a sudden braking vehicle.
Pikey
Does the frame come with mounting points for extra weights?
There called pedals arent they.
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