MountGower wrote:Things other than frame material contribute to a bikes weight. Your old bike could have been made from 4130 CRMO and have low quality components and the new one could be made from Columbus Airplane and have Chorus all over it.
Columbus have a steel tube set out now that weighs 1115 grams. The weight of a bike could be down to anything.
My old bike was reasonably good quality cro mo (531 I think) and had mainly 8spd Campag Chorus, but it did have some god awful heavy wheels and other components like the bars, pedels etc.
My new bike is a mix of 10spd Chorus and Centur (with a lovely Chorus headset, which is definately my favourite part so far!) with Mavic wheels. Not sure of what sort of tubing, but I do know that Masils are still hand built in Portugal and it shows - the welds are amazing.
MountGower wrote:The main thing is that you like the new bike. Regardless of anything else it's hard to beat a new bike. Go hard and good to see a happy ending to the story.
Will the avatar change or is it a memorial to the old bike?
Planning to get out on it
a lot this weekend.
I will be keeping my Avatar I think, in memory of 'old yellow'