Carrying tools

On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 6:39:54 PM UTC-5, John B. wrote:

Hard to pick up? 40 oz = 2.5 lbs. or 1.1 kg. :-)
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Cheers,

John B.

Most, many bikes today weigh 20 pounds total. So you are talking about 10-12% extra weight. Lets pretend a bicyclist weighs 200 pounds. It would be nothing for him to put on a 20 pound weight vest and go riding. Just 10%.

On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:41:13 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 6:39:54 PM UTC-5, John B. wrote:

Hard to pick up? 40 oz = 2.5 lbs. or 1.1 kg. :-)
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Cheers,

John B.

Most, many bikes today weigh 20 pounds total. So you are talking about 10-12% extra weight. Lets pretend a bicyclist weighs 200 pounds. It would be nothing for him to put on a 20 pound weight vest and go riding. Just 10%.

Yup. Two drink bottles, with contents, weigh about 1 Kg :-)

In fact, I just weighed a (I guess standard size) drink bottle full of
water and it weighed 620 gm. So I was wrong, two bottles weigh 1.2 kg
:-)
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Cheers,

John B.

On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 1:21:36 AM UTC+2, Doug Landau wrote:
I was on tour
I was 1K miles from home
I passed a ball-pein hammer in the gutter
What would you do?

In general I leave it because someone lost it and mayby come back looking for it. Once I lost my sunlasses and I was glad someone lay it aside of the bike path so it would not be run over and was easily spotted by me because I went back looking for my expensive sunglasses.

Lou

On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 6:41:15 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 6:39:54 PM UTC-5, John B. wrote:

Hard to pick up? 40 oz = 2.5 lbs. or 1.1 kg. :-)
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Cheers,

John B.

Most, many bikes today weigh 20 pounds total. So you are talking about 10-12% extra weight. Lets pretend a bicyclist weighs 200 pounds. It would be nothing for him to put on a 20 pound weight vest and go riding. Just 10%.

http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/...-blufrk-21.jpg

About 17.5 lbs. and steel to boot.

On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 9:37:31 PM UTC-5, John B. wrote:
On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:41:13 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 6:39:54 PM UTC-5, John B. wrote:

Hard to pick up? 40 oz = 2.5 lbs. or 1.1 kg. :-)
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Cheers,

John B.

Most, many bikes today weigh 20 pounds total. So you are talking about 10-12% extra weight. Lets pretend a bicyclist weighs 200 pounds. It would be nothing for him to put on a 20 pound weight vest and go riding. Just 10%.

Yup. Two drink bottles, with contents, weigh about 1 Kg :-)

In fact, I just weighed a (I guess standard size) drink bottle full of
water and it weighed 620 gm. So I was wrong, two bottles weigh 1.2 kg
:-)
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Cheers,

John B.

I ride with one bottle 99% of the time. Don't see the point of carrying the extra weight. Where I ride its rarely more than 10 miles between towns where its easy to get water or drinks. Why carry extra weight for nothing? Maybe all the pros like you ride in the middle of nowhere and its 100 miles between water.

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 13:22:24 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 9:37:31 PM UTC-5, John B. wrote:
On Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:41:13 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Friday, October 20, 2017 at 6:39:54 PM UTC-5, John B. wrote:

Hard to pick up? 40 oz = 2.5 lbs. or 1.1 kg. :-)
--
Cheers,

John B.

Most, many bikes today weigh 20 pounds total. So you are talking about 10-12% extra weight. Lets pretend a bicyclist weighs 200 pounds. It would be nothing for him to put on a 20 pound weight vest and go riding. Just 10%.

Yup. Two drink bottles, with contents, weigh about 1 Kg :-)

In fact, I just weighed a (I guess standard size) drink bottle full of
water and it weighed 620 gm. So I was wrong, two bottles weigh 1.2 kg
:-)
--
Cheers,

John B.

I ride with one bottle 99% of the time. Don't see the point of carrying the extra weight. Where I ride its rarely more than 10 miles between towns where its easy to get water or drinks. Why carry extra weight for nothing? Maybe all the pros like you ride in the middle of nowhere and its 100 miles between water.

Whatever turns you (or me) on, I guess. I carry two bottles because I
don't like the bother of stopping and buying a bottle of water...
although one day I got lost and when I realized I was 100 km from
home, and it was about 38 degrees (C), I bought a big bottle of water.
:-)
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Cheers,

John B.

2 bottles weight is unfeLT on most running frames n in a hot climate running dry is a negative...why not be conformable inside ?

Beside one on seat tube one on down tube looks more balanced more de rigger way more expeditionary way cool, right ?

On 22/10/17 07:22, wrote:


I ride with one bottle 99% of the time. Don't see the point of
carrying the extra weight. Where I ride its rarely more than 10
miles between towns where its easy to get water or drinks. Why carry
extra weight for nothing? Maybe all the pros like you ride in the
middle of nowhere and its 100 miles between water.


I start each ride with two large water bottles full of water. The
nearest town is 10km away, and after that the next town with water is
30-50km away, depending on which direction I ride. It is often quite
warm and in summer it is humid. The effects of dehydration are not good.

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JS

On 21/10/17 01:04, Radey Shouman wrote:
James writes:

On 20/10/17 10:21, Doug Landau wrote:
I was on tour
I was 1K miles from home
I passed a ball-pein hammer in the gutter
What would you do?


That's a fair distance to lug a hammer. Would you notice the extra
weight given the weight of your bike, luggage and yourself?

Is it in good condition?

I'd be considering it.

How big? A 4 oz hammer would be very hard to pass up, a 40 oz hammer
hard to pick up.


If you have trouble picking up a 40oz hammer, you are much weaker than
most adults I would guess.

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JS

On Sat, 21 Oct 2017 13:22:24 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

I ride with one bottle 99% of the time. Don't see the point of carrying the extra weight. Where I ride its rarely more than 10 miles between towns where its easy to get water or drinks. Why carry extra weight for nothing? Maybe all the pros like you ride in the middle of nowhere and its 100 miles between water.

All our parks departments have a fetish for turning off water
fountains. When I checked to see whether the only remaining fountain
at the CCAC had been turned off for the winter, I found a bare pipe
sticking up out of the ground -- both the fountain and the faucet
under it had been removed.

I confidently rode to Pierceton with only enough water for one way,
only to find that the only water fountain in town was out of order.
When I asked, I was told that it had been turned off for the winter
the previous fall, and nobody had seen fit to turn it on in the
spring. Fortunately, I'd come to attend a festival, and was able to
buy a bottle of water from the Lions.

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