Re: [CR]Spec Weight vs. Reality

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From: "Pete Geurds" <raleighpro@dejazzd.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Spec Weight vs. Reality
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:48:57 -0500


From: "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net>
> What relation to reality do spec weights (those quoted in the brochure)
> assume? And how are they usually determined? I presume with some arbitrary
> frame size.
> My '75 Raleigh Team Pro is finally "done" (well mostly) with a new 32-hole
> Mavic Monthlery Legere wheelset with Campy l/f hubs, Veloflex Criterium
> tyres, the correct Super Record derailleur, seatpost, headset etc.
> Everything in the '74-75 brochure except the titanium bottom bracket axle.
> So pretty much "spec". 59 cm frame so "average" size. Or is it?
> She weighs exactly 22 lbs. The specs say 20. Is this about average or do you
> guys have better things to do on cold, snowy days than to weigh your bikes
> and sweat such things? 20 lbs. is the spec weight, by the way, for the
> Raleigh Pro Mark IV of the same year.
> Then again, my pocketbook has been so much lightened doing all of this (ever
> get the feeling you actually just bought a frameset instead of a complete
> bike?), maybe the extra two pounds can come from that???

My calculator's not handy, 59cm is what 231/2"? You can bet they weighed the 201/2" model for the catalog. Also, cynical me wonders if the pump, and the clips&straps made it on for the weigh-in.

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, Pa