I can assure Bill that the scales used at C+ are regularly recalibrated by Avery, their makers. C+ has always operated a very clear separation between editorial and ad departments. And we would have no need to exaggerate the weights of frames and bikes built more than fifty years ago.
Hilary Stone, Bristol, England
Bill Bryant wrote:
> I have used a calibrated
> scale at my shop for many years and have learned things rarely weigh as
> little as most cycling magazine writers, or especially, bike manufacturers
> boldly claimed.
>
>..... Please back it up with a reliable weight measurement, not the
> scribbling of an enthusiastic journalist (whose magazine relies on ad income
> from frame builders), or some manufacturer with a vested interest in
> claiming an extraordinarily low weight to get more bike sales. After all,
> that is exactly why they participated in them.
>
>> Jan Heine wrote:
>>>
>> (cut) Bikes were very special, with every component
>>> reworked. Tubes were superlight 0.3 mm. Resulting bikes were more
>>> like 16 lbs. with lights, racks, fenders, etc. Not designed to last
>>> more than two or three events.