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Boardman Pro Carbon SLR….. Overweight?

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  • January 22, 2018 at 7:22 pm #28063
    efail

    I have just bought a small, Boardman Pro Carbon SLR. The medium size, on the Boardman site, is advertised at 7.3kg. Halfords, and review sites, including this one, have it at tiny fraction over 7kg. When I got it home I weighed it and it showed 7.8kg. The Halfords shop have weighed it with the same result. That’s a massive difference. Boardman have told me and Halfords that the difference is an acceptable tolerance and could be down to; paint, wheels, saddle etc.

    Any one got any thoughts?

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  • January 23, 2018 at 8:34 pm #910601
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    alansmurphy

    fizrar6 wrote:

    fizrar6 wrote:

    alansmurphy wrote:
    I’ll bet your hair gel weighs more…

    I bet your ego weighs more.

    I leave that at home when riding and save it up for people getting nouty on a website in defence of someone they never met. Bless you princess.

    January 23, 2018 at 7:46 pm #910599
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    Welsh boy

    If you are that bothered

    If you are that bothered about the weight why didn’t you weigh it before you bought it?  And as for Strava, did you really only do 152.00m of elevation gain last year?  Forget weighing things, forget recording things on some website in the hope of impressing some one (why else would you be telling total strangers how much you had done, no one else gives a shit) and just ride your bike and enjoy it.

    January 23, 2018 at 6:25 pm #910597
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    fizrar6

    alansmurphy wrote:

    alansmurphy wrote:
    I’ll bet your hair gel weighs more…

    I bet your ego weighs more.

    January 23, 2018 at 6:21 pm #910595
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    HalfWheeler

    Is this a serious post? Jesus

    Is this a serious post? Jesus…

    Never, in a million years, could I imagine this spoiling a day out on the bike. Have a shit before you go out, that must be worth a half kilo weight save.

    January 23, 2018 at 5:48 pm #910593
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    efail

    When I went back to Halfords

    When I went back to Halfords they weighed the bike on their scales after I had weighed it at home. They are on the case but I think that is a good idea to check if other branches have them in. I was hoping someone on here may have bought one for comparison. Just out of interest, has anyone ever weighed their ‘new’ bike less pedals etc? 

    January 23, 2018 at 11:00 am #910591
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    IanEdward

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    If all the bikes are coming out plus 500g it seems less plausible to quote a plus or minus range and appears to be more the norm.

    I had this issue with some lightweight hiking gear (Mountain Hardwear sleeping bags…).

    Quoting a plus or minus range is the most dishonest/inaccurate part of this scenario I think, does anyone really believe that there are bikes out there that are 730g LIGHTER than stated? 

    Apart from Pinnarello of course, who just took the lightest 10% and marketed them as extra-light and charged extra smiley

     

    p.s. re: ‘just have a poo’ comments, does anyone NOT take a poo before they go for a ride? (recent Giro winners excluded of course)

    January 23, 2018 at 10:36 am #910589
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    stomec

    How accurate are your scales?

    How accurate are your scales?  Is it not more likely that they are out?  Have you tried different scales and calibrated them with accurately weighed volumes of water?

    January 23, 2018 at 10:36 am #910587
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    arckuk

    I realise that 500 g doesn’t

    I realise that 500 g doesn’t make much difference to overall performance, but I think that that’s taking the piss a bit – yes there are tolerances on individual components but there are many components on a bike, and some of those will be slightly lighter than average and some slightly heavier. When a bike is advertised at a specific weight, it should be there or thereabouts (100-200 g variance is acceptable, but 200g over should be the exception rather than the rule). Half a kilo is a lot! If Boardman can’t make their bikes more repeatably than that, then they’ve got serious manufacturing issues.

    January 23, 2018 at 10:09 am #910585
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    velochris

    efail wrote:

    efail wrote:

    Thank you for all of your comments, humerous ‘and’ constructive. I know it doesn’t sound a great deal of weight (actually 14% heavier) but part of it is the disappointment I felt, after reading the hype, and then weighing the bike. I’ll wait and see what Halfords have to say today, but I won’t hold my breath expecting to hear from Boardman. 

    By the way…what’s ‘hair gel’?


    Do a quick search on Halfords website to find other stores with the same bike in stock. Phone them and ask them to weight the bike. If all the bikes are coming out plus 500g it seems less plausible to quote a plus or minus range and appears to be more the norm. This would support your case if you do feel the 500g is am issue.

    January 23, 2018 at 9:47 am #910583
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    efail

    Thank you for all of your

    Thank you for all of your comments, humerous ‘and’ constructive. I know it doesn’t sound a great deal of weight (actually 14% heavier) but part of it is the disappointment I felt, after reading the hype, and then weighing the bike. I’ll wait and see what Halfords have to say today, but I won’t hold my breath expecting to hear from Boardman. 

    By the way…what’s ‘hair gel’?

    January 23, 2018 at 9:42 am #910581
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    philhubbard

    Most parts on a bike have a

    Most parts on a bike have a standard tolerance of +/-10%, thats why you have companies such as Sky weighing every tyre and measuring every stem. You may have just been unfortunate and got some wheels and tyres which were slightly heavier than the norm that could make up 500g. I know for a fact we used to get the same Conti tyres that could vary by over 40g

    January 23, 2018 at 9:25 am #910579
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    Anonymous

    I get what the OP is saying

    I get what the OP is saying and I agree with them. The bike is advertised as “super lightweight”, except it isn’t and is not just marginally heavier but substantially heavier thus it actually breaches what it is purporting/selling itself to be.

    if the OP had know it was going to weigh that much then they may have chosen another product elsewhere, afterall part of that decision when buying a bike and some components is down to how heavy the bike is, we all do it.

    Personally I would reject the bike as false advertising/not as described quoting the consumer Rights Act and get a full refund and buy something else if it bothered me that much/felt I was being diddled, I have done similar with some ‘lightweight’ chains that were nothing of the sort and for which was the main reason i bought them.

    January 23, 2018 at 8:50 am #910577
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    kil0ran

    alansmurphy wrote:

    alansmurphy wrote:
    I’ll bet your hair gel weighs more…

    Doesn’t seem to hold Kittel back…

    Then again, I hear Alpecin use carbon nanotubes in their hair care products

    January 23, 2018 at 7:45 am #910575
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    alansmurphy

    I’ll bet your hair gel weighs
    I’ll bet your hair gel weighs more…

    January 23, 2018 at 7:26 am #910573
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    ibr17xvii

    Although it wouldn’t bother

    Although it wouldn’t bother me too much personally I’m kinda with the OP on this one, half a kilo is too much of a difference.

    Manufacturers should weigh the bike as shipped with no “extras” on it & report that weight so it’s accurate IMHO.

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