[email protected] (Tom Nicholson) wrote in message news:<
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> Well,
>
> Does anyone know why European bikes seem to be so distinctly heavy? I've not ridden any but they
> always seem to be up in the +14kg rang at least.
>
> Tom
In the case of the Netherlands and Denmark, I suppose that it is flat enough that weight is not much
of a penalty, so why not use that weight to make a bike that can carry whatever you want. I have
heard just such a case made before.
Germany by contrast is quite hilly to mountainous over much of its geography so I have wondered the
same thing, why are their bikes so heavy. They probably ask the same thing about our cars, trucks
and vans. Maybe it has more to do with what is hot where.
I ride a 40+ lb trike so that I can carry what I want when I want. Maybe they just think
something similar.
Gary McCarty, Greenspeed GTO, Salt Lake City