How much stuff have you got strapped on your commuter?

[cyberknight]

Hand weighed my 2 bikes yesterday to see the difference between the commuter and the now stripped of stuff nice bike,both are aluminum and both have near enough the same equipment spec .

Flipping eck !!!

the commuter was about twice the weight !!

pannier rack
pannier bags +contents
mudguards
lights
airzound
etc


When i get the chance to go for a leisure ride i should fly

 

[BSRU]

Hand weighed my 2 bikes yesterday to see the difference between the commuter and the now stripped of stuff nice bike,both are aluminum and both have near enough the same equipment spec .

Flipping eck !!!

the commuter was about twice the weight !!

pannier rack
pannier bags +contents
mudguards
lights
airzound
etc


When i get the chance to go for a leisure ride i should fly

When I get my new sunny day commuter bike soon it will be about 12kg less than my current bad weather commuter.

 

[Norm]

Aye, all of that and more and my current "commuter" starts out on the back foot, as it's a 20 year old steel framed rigid mountain bike.

 

[gaz]

The difference between my commuter and my weekend bike is huge.
Mainly because one is made of carbon and the other steel with a hub gear.

My commuter bike has
2x fibre flare
magicshine rear light
magicshine front light
magicshine battery
carradice saddle bag with blackburn mars 4
carradice saddle bag support
hope vision 1
water bottle
garmin edge 705
mudguards.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

one small saddlebag

 

[GrasB]

Very little... it's great when your wife works on the same site as you. A saddle bag with 2 tubes, multi-tool & tyre leavers. On the frame there's a mini pump, 3 rear lights & 2 front lights.

 

[fossyant]

My commuter is about 8kg including guards.

Now sports:-

2 x Hope Vision 1's
1 x Knog Toad
2 x Magicshine Rears
1 x RSP Flasher
1 x Pannier Rack
1 x Pannier

God it's very heavy loaded up.

 

[upsidedown]

Rear rack
Carradice Super C (right hand side)
Caradice Super C saddle bag
Full length mudguards
Smart Superflash x 2
1 Knog Frog
Topeak Tri bag
Ay-Ups
Couple of bungees

Weighs a ton

 

[HLaB]

My commuter weighs the proverbial ton:
1 Pannier (sometimes 2)
1x Rack
Mini Pump & bracket (although its usually put in the pannier along with the spare tube and p'ture repair kit)
Kyptoflex Cable
D Lock (New York)
Mud Guards
Smart Bspoke light & bracket
Cateye 510 bracket
Blackburn Mars 4.0 and bracket
Cateye TL600 7 bracket
(although in summer this is reduced)
I've got Topeak brackets fitted for a Wedge bag & phone bag but these are seldom used.
Oh and while I'm being weight concious there also 2 bottle cages and a bracket for a smart 1/2 watt.

 

[DrSquirrel]

For the winter, I now have a topeak beam rack this carries my "saddle bag" kit too (tube, co2 etc) and main rear light (MJ818) with a small trunk bag on it which carries my work kit and a second light (Smart 1/2W).

In the summer I intend to commute with it monday and take the whole rack off and leave it and kit at work until friday hometime.

Bike itself > GPS, MJ808, other P7 torch as backup (when dark, in daylight I carry just one), Smart 1/2W (when trunk bag isn't attached), Tribag (battery, phone, keys etc comes off in summer too).


I have multiple bikes though, fixed ss has full guards, geared has aero bars.

 

[400bhp]

There's little difference in my commuter/free time bike.

Partly because they are interchangeable and I don't need to take too much to work. It probably boild down to:

-glasses
-works phone
-front / rear lights (although I will sometimes have the free time bike)
- works socks / duds on the way back from work

However I don't have 1.5l (so 1.5kgs more or less) of drinks on board the commuter.

I find the topeak aero wedge packs great for interchanging between bikes (got three sizes).

 

[perplexed]

Put it this way, I have to check the weight limit on bridges.

 

[nightoff]

Commuter bike

1 x Magicshine front light + battery
1 x RSP front light
1 x Bell F12 cycle computer
Crud Roadracer guards
Mini pump & bracket
Bottle cage
Bottle (Used to carry home made soup in the winter)
2 x Lunar superflash
Carradice Camper Longflap + contents
Carradice Bagman Expedition

Leisure bike

As above - Swap soup for proper drink

My commute is pretty flat so I don't feel the weight too much once upto speed.

 

[Skyfoil]

I carry the following;

• Mudguards
• 1x pannier bag (The other stays at home)
• Full water bottle
• 2x front lights
• 2x rear lights
• Pump

Just taking the pannier bag off makes the bike wonderfully light. The difference between a commuter and a leisure bike.

 

[mark barker]

My bike tends to have a single pannier containing first aid kit, hi viz vests x6, multi tools, wd40, oil & an a4 folder full of paperwork (all needed for bikeability). On top of the rack I have the mini cones (stack of 50). Apart from that its just the usual pump, lock, lights and water bottle.