Just on the weight thing, I carried 4 bottles of beer in my saddlebag and the bike sure felt that little bit sluggish.
On the topic of forks I wonder how good the thorn steel disc fork is.
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samsbike wrote:Just on the weight thing, I carried 4 bottles of beer in my saddlebag and the bike sure felt that little bit sluggish.
On the topic of forks I wonder how good the thorn steel disc fork is.
Yer tinnies are high up innit & slosh motion adds to the unbalance a little bit too
, I carried 4x5 litres of veggie oil and 2x4pt milk & some lemon soles back from the shops last week, roughly 25kg net, so honking back up the hill (6%) made it a bit wobbly back end and a bugger on the quads in 36x19 
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samsbike wrote:Just on the weight thing, I carried 4 bottles of beer in my saddlebag and the bike sure felt that little bit sluggish.
I carried four bottles of beer somewhere else and I didn't feel a thing....
cheers
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Brucey wrote:I carried four bottles of beer somewhere else and I didn't feel a thing....
cheers
But was it a bit wobbly back end?
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As I try to think of all the options that might allow me to continue cycling, weight is obviously a factor. Not for the usual go faster/further, just "go". I live at the top of a hill and my every daily c.15 miles ends in "up". Other than move house, weight plus gearing will be the determinant.
It seems from the above that for a bike that will take 'grds and say 700x32s it will be nigh impossible to go lighter than my seriously and expensively up-graded Trex 7.5FX, which with 'grds comes in at c.20lbs. But running a road compact c'set means a bottom gear of c. 30" - an mtb triple will bring this down to c.20" and should give me another 6-9 mths of riding home! Some extra weight will probably be more than counterbalanced by lower gear. (A carbon 7.7 FX would give a further reduction if I swapped all my components over, but it does not have 'grd eyes.)
My 18lb carbon Planet X SL will run only 23mm (altho' full carbon and carbon seat post means comfort is fine with skinny tyres) and 'grds are a non-starter - I can't abide clip on Raceblades etc.
So, short of spending many '000s of £s, I have two more options to consider - a Brompton so that I can take a bus up the hill or an EAP - but the former are poor quality for the price IMO/E (and difficult to gear down) and the good pedelecs are silly money and very heavy.
"Light" can be of greater importance than simply gaining a few mph over a long ride - but whatever the motive, it sure don't come cheap!
It seems from the above that for a bike that will take 'grds and say 700x32s it will be nigh impossible to go lighter than my seriously and expensively up-graded Trex 7.5FX, which with 'grds comes in at c.20lbs. But running a road compact c'set means a bottom gear of c. 30" - an mtb triple will bring this down to c.20" and should give me another 6-9 mths of riding home! Some extra weight will probably be more than counterbalanced by lower gear. (A carbon 7.7 FX would give a further reduction if I swapped all my components over, but it does not have 'grd eyes.)
My 18lb carbon Planet X SL will run only 23mm (altho' full carbon and carbon seat post means comfort is fine with skinny tyres) and 'grds are a non-starter - I can't abide clip on Raceblades etc.
So, short of spending many '000s of £s, I have two more options to consider - a Brompton so that I can take a bus up the hill or an EAP - but the former are poor quality for the price IMO/E (and difficult to gear down) and the good pedelecs are silly money and very heavy.
"Light" can be of greater importance than simply gaining a few mph over a long ride - but whatever the motive, it sure don't come cheap!
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There is a also an electric motor option from Vivax which might solve the hill problem and only weighs 1.8 Kg, including battery, but it costs an arm and a leg.
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That is neat - but over 2 grand is indeed a lot of cash! Thanks.
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DJN… how about some personal weight loss, every little helps.. 
Al
Al
Reuse, recycle, thus do your bit to save the planet.... Get stuff at auctions, Dump, Charity Shops, Facebook Marketplace, Ebay, Car Boots. Choose an Old House, and a Banger ..... And cycle as often as you can......
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al_yrpal wrote:DJN… how about some personal weight loss, every little helps..
Al
A simplistic measure I know, but with a sub-20 BMI for ALL of my 66 years I am already really quite "light". Any weight loss now will simply be a signal that my demise will be here very soon!
PS Or to put it another way, it's not only the overweight who die!