# Bicycle weights have disappeared from the specs most makers give out. What gives?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 27, 2008, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bicycle-weights-have-disappeared-from-the-specs-most-makers-give-out-what-gives/450734 "2008-05-27T07:57:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bicycle-weights-have-disappeared-from-the-specs-most-makers-give-out-what-gives/450734/21 "2008-05-28T00:20:04Z")

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[QUOTE=Rick]  
Then I bought a road bike. I was wrong in my assumption. I was way wrong. It was like going from a dump truck to a Ferrari. Holy crap was it different. The bike was like riding on a flywheel, you turned the pedals and it just accelerated.  
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I felt the same way when I got my Specialized, but maybe more so, since I was stepping up from sub-$200 box store “mountain bikes”.

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