On 1 Sep 2005 07:19:18 -0700,
[email protected] wrote:
>pretty darn hefty? 19 pounds feels light enough for the $200 i spent,
>and with my big gigantic muscles. my point is that saying it can't be
>done is a tad elitist. as with all things, when asked a question, you
>have to find out what the person asking it really wants. for $200, you
>can get either a new huffy, or a used, 25-pound clunker road bike. or,
>you can get a clean, smooth running 19-pound fixed gear.
>
>sure you can't have a lighter-than-air space age carbon fiber bike for
>$200, but those of you who are really into biking should realize that
>not everyone can spend the kind of cash that you do to achieve
>perfection. the elitist thing is to say that you can't do anything
>useful to a 30-pound mountain bike with $200 to make it lighter. no
>you can't make it a 20-pound competition bike, but you definitely can
>do something useful with it.
You didn't say $200, you said $100-150. But even with $200, you're simply
not going to be able to do very much about the weight. If you wanted to
hear "just convert it to a fixed gear/single speed, *that*'ll shed some
weight", which is true, you should have asked the question differently.
$100-150 buys about half a drivetrain worth of Deore, but that's not going
to get the weight down in any significant fashion. Unless you tell us
*more* about *exactly* what's on the bike, nobody's going to be able to
offer more than generalities. But the thing is, $100-150 isn't enough to
replace more than a few components, and unless there are some particular
components that are more heavier than others (say, the wheels turn out to
be made with cast-iron rims), there's not much point in upgrading just a
few components.
Anybody who knows enough about bikes to scrounge around in second hand
parts bins for ultracheap gear and/or to want a single-speed/fixie
conversion wouldn't be asking the question you did, unless he were setting
out to prove a point about the unhelpfulness of rbt.
In other words, I call troll.
Jasper
