How much does your bike weigh?

[fenlandpsychocyclist]

Does moving weight of the rider have an effect?
Only i'm 14 stones with each leg weighing 6 stones of pure muscle.

If you think of one leg rising to top dead centre on the pedal stroke there will be a brief
moment of inertia where the six stone leg becomes weightless, then on the change of direction
the six stones drags against the remaining 14 stones of me, so i become 8 stones briefly.
Then if you factor in my average cadence of 92rpm ... i'm pretty much weightless.

(Turning into stanley unwin now).

 

[mcshroom]

One has a mass of 12.2kg, the other 15kg. I weigh considerably more

 

[Bengarbage]

Bike is about 8kg I weigh 11.5 st, good ratio i reckon

 

[Cyclopathic]

Does moving weight of the rider have an effect?
Only i'm 14 stones with each leg weighing 6 stones of pure muscle.

If you think of one leg rising to top dead centre on the pedal stroke there will be a brief
moment of inertia where the six stone leg becomes weightless, then on the change of direction
the six stones drags against the remaining 14 stones of me, so i become 8 stones briefly.
Then if you factor in my average cadence of 92rpm ... i'm pretty much weightless.

(Turning into stanley unwin now).

But for every instance where you become 8 stone there will be an equal and corresponding moment where you become 22 stone and your net average weight will remain the same. What you need is balloons ful of helium.

 

[buddha]

What you need is balloons ful of helium.

For a second I thought you'd said b*llo*ks full of helium.

 

[Cyclopathic]

For a second I thought you'd said b*llo*ks full of helium.

That's just silly. Unless one is very unlucky then gonads would not be anywhere voluminous enough to contain enough helium to have an effect.

 

[Peteaud]

me = 90kg
road bike 9.8 kg
mtb = 12kg
commuter / do it all = 14.5 kg

 

[nick.b]

my Ti bike weighs in at 8.4kg iirc +68kg for myself.

 

[annaspanna]

Bike = 9kg (less than my sons bike which continues to amaze me)
Me = 60.2kg (it's precise cause it's goal weight hit today so dead happy)

 

[nick.b]

Bike = 9kg (less than my sons bike which continues to amaze me)
Me = 60.2kg (it's precise cause it's goal weight hit today so dead happy)

nice one, good work )

 

[Pauluk]

Does moving weight of the rider have an effect?

No it doesn't, but when you are moving you gain weight. The faster you go the heavier you become.

 

[nick.b]

No it doesn't, but when you are moving you gain weight. The faster you go the heavier you become.

going fast makes me fat?.......

 

[Pauluk]

going fast makes me fat?.......

No just heavier

 

[doctornige]

No just heavier

Heheh. Cool physics joke. :-)

 

[Pauluk]

Heheh. Cool physics joke. :-)

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