last night we were debating tri vs. road bikes and subject came to how the tri bikes are heavy. I was able to shave some weight by removing unnecessary stuff (see my other post) and it came down to a 18LBS. Which I trued to weight it prematurely on a bathroom scale.
what is the norm/average weight for a competitive tri bike?
… about 1/2 kilo less than whatever you are currently riding…
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Mine weighs. 17 lbs 7.4 ozs…Kuota K-factor
Tri bike weight is nearly irrelevant.
If you have the budget to be a weight weenie, then have at it. You’d likely be better served spending $ on, and putting effort into, things that actually make you faster (and knocking grams off your bike isn’t one of them).
Relative to road bikes, of course they are heavy. Aero wheels weigh more than standard ones (more material). The whole front complex has more stuff, so it weighs more than a comparable road drop bar, in total. The tubes are larger to be more aero, so they naturally will weigh more. You are not doing a crit (where rapid acceleration is needed) or a hillclimb tt (weight matters there), so you don’t need the absolute lightest bike for triathlon.
Light enough so that the front wheels of your car don’t come off the ground when you put it on a rear mounted bike rack.
Geee… Thanks… I didn’t know that.
I asked a NUMBER 
OK, here ya go - 1 lb LESS than whatever your current bike weighs.
Have fun ‘making weight’, Lara Flynn Boyle
My road bike w/ clip-ons weighs like 20.5 lbs.
I think my B2 in race shape is like ~18.5
I’m nearly equally fast on both of them. The slightly lower position on the Felt (and aero shifting) being the difference, not the weight.
Don’t worry about weight for a tri bike. Worry about aerodynamics. My P2K is at least a couple of lbs heavier than my road bike.
See… Was it that hard? Lara Flynn Boyle is hot BTW!
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A 452 lb. beam bike. Get that sucker going and it’ll never slowdown.
I don’t worry about weight too much.
My aluminum fuji aloha probably comes in around 18 with race wheels. That’s with nothing special on it either. Vision bars, thomson post, FSA SLK cranks, DA9 RD, standard brakes, etc.
mine is just under 17lbs now and in a few weeks will drop to under 16.5lbs, as I have a couple more upgrades to make. It is nice and light now with the HED 3c and Zipp disc, but there are couple of performance improvements that will actually cut a bit more of the weight.
i think my bike is justover 20lbs…road bike is 18.1lbs.
not light, but neither am i
that’s with xlab cages and stuff on the back as well.
hmm, I think about 17lb for my tri bike with race wheels. It’s not to important on tri bikes as everyone has noted and it’s hard to get the weight down as aerbars are usually a bit heavier and those aero seatposts are often bricks. No sti levers though…
how did you get your k-factor so light?
There was a guy who had his Cervelo carbon racked a couple of bikes down from mine at IMLP. He had a reasonably light bike which was loaded up with 2 bottles behind the seat, one or two on the frame and a Profile bottle up front so he was packing quite a few extra pounds on there … seems like I see a lot of that at triathlons so weight must not concern people too much once they are out of the shop where they made their initial purchase.
Excellent point…
Yes, weight is not that relevant. I get irritated when guy’s show up to a race with 2-4 large waterbottles on their bike. At 3 pounds each, they just took an 18 pound bike to 30 pounds. And the guy with 15 percent bodyfat (30 plus pounds of fat) Wouldn’t make sense to lost 5-10 pounds of fat instead of $$$ to take their 18 pouind bike to 17 or 16.5 pounds?
Yes, weight is not that relevant. I get irritated when guy’s show up to a race with 2-4 large waterbottles on their bike. At 3 pounds each, they just took an 18 pound bike to 30 pounds. And the guy with 15 percent bodyfat (30 plus pounds of fat) Wouldn’t make sense to lost 5-10 pounds of fat instead of $$$ to take their 18 pouind bike to 17 or 16.5 pounds?
Sweet mother of God, what kind of water bottles do they have where you live? Where do they get 48 oz water bottles, and where do they put them?
Also, why do you get irritated? I just smile.
What confuses me are triathletes that are carrying 15+ pounds themselves (i.e., overweight) and yet spend extra money so their bike can weigh a pound or two less … as if “bike weight” was a contributor/culprit.
I’m not saying anything bad about folks that could lose a few, because I’m closer to that than I am 6%BF, but it just seems weird to put that much consideration and money into a couple of pounds of bike weight while seemingly ignoring the real opportunity to “cut weight” and increase performance (for much, much, much less money)