>>2038149I doubt that bike weighs much more than 11.5 kg, it looks like it's badged as Reynolds 853 tubing.
Bit even13kg isn't heavy for a bike, people think cheap chinese carbon fibers suspended in plastic polymer resin is a proper material when we all know nobody is going to be hunting for 30 year old plastic bikes in the future.
Good new bikes are cool too, but there was definitely a golden age in the 80s and 90s when quality steel with fillet brazing was standard for some manufacturers. and even mass produced consumer bikes came with decent chromoly even at the lower tiers. Whereas now the same quality costs thousands just for the frame, if you can find someone who does it.
I hate to break it to people but steel is the best material for a bike that is intended for heavy usage, whether its daily commuting, hard trail riding or occasional long distance touring, if the bike is going to receive punishment steel is real.
Aluminium is OK but lasts nowhere near as long, it's dead feeling makes it uncomfortable and once it breaks repairs are pretty much impossible or cost more than a new bike. Titanium is also great, much better than aluminium, lighter and comfier than steel but not as robust or reparable. Carbon, as we all know is a meme, although great for single use pro racing.
Weight is only a serious consideration for pro racers who get everything supplied for them and for whom every millisecond genuinely means life and death, the weak and the unfit.
Only unfit weaklings use weight as a metric for measuring the quality of a bicycle.
