The bike weight wiki

[jeremyb]

Hey there folks, in case you didnt see it on WW, i started a bike weight wiki----basically, a place for all of us to post our bike component weights without having to wait for the mods to actually enter it into the listing for us.

http://plusonelap.pbwiki.com/

1)you have to register with pbwiki

2)then email me at plusonelap@gmail.com for the sitewide password.

then you can begin editing the page and adding content.

Some folks have begun to add their weights and have added new categories as well, and I think this could be a really cool thing, If more people got involved.

jeremy

[madcow]

Good idea Jeremy, only problem is that without the year of the product, it's not going to be all that useful in another 6 months when most things change. Take a look at WW, see how much the weights vary by year. Plus people won't know if they are looking at something new or old.

Other than that, it looks good.

[jeremyb]

thanks, yeah okay, will try to add years to things, i see your point.

[Boonen]

Sounds like a good idea if many people will post weights! A manufacturing year definetly would be handy, maybe a special section for addings like f.i stem length or fork length etc.
I don't know if it's possible but what I really like about the listings over at ww's is that you can relist them from lightest to heaviest component or on alfabet etc. if it's possible to add that I think it would be usefull as it can be hard to find weights when the list gets long.

Also I tried registering, but somehow I get defn error if I want to enter a password, any ideas?

[Balenaar]

Good idea, but it's gonna be very difficult to place everything in right order and to know the exactly weights of evrything ...

[jeremyb]

boonen----you have to register then enter the special password, i wanted people to email me for it but it doesnt matter i guess---- the special password is: lightweight

enter than and you'll be good to go. and start posting...the system doesnt want to let just anyone into the "community" but I trust weight weiners.

Yeah making the table sortable would be great, and its whats needed to really compete with the WW list, but at the time that is not possible.

I think it could big as well, if people started posting to it. there are about 239 weights already (basically my personal catalog of weights ive weighed and another users)

[jeremyb]

i had an idea on how to cut down the importance of the sortable table------increase the amount of categories.

for example, instead of just "hubs" as WW has. I have set the wiki to have:

Hubs-front disc
Hubs-rear disc
Hubs-front non disc
Hubs-rear non disc

This way there are less listings per cat. making each category easier on the eyes.

This can be done for front/rear wheels, road/mtn stems, integrated/std headsets etc.


jeremy

[Boonen]

boonen----you have to register then enter the special password, i wanted people to email me for it but it doesnt matter i guess---- the special password is: lightweight

Thanks Jeremy, I had trouble with registering with PBWiki itself, so I hadn't even come around in sending you an e-mail yet. I just tried again and now it worked, I'll add some weights of stuff I have weighed myself and have pictures of on a scale when I got the time.

PS: just read a bit more on your blog, I think it's great and wanted you to know that I always wash my gloves with the rest of my cycling clothes, it keeps them nice and soft

PS2: I edited your opening site just a bit by adding a link to the registering site (I had a bit of a hard time finding it so it might be helpfull to others) I'm pretty sure you had it on there a few days ago? Hope you don't mind!

[Knut]

Another good way is to put your gloves the mesh bags women use to wash their lingerie in the washing machine. Just do it on a gentle cycle and then let them air dry. I'll do all my bike clothes at once and by putting my gloves in the bags ti keeps the velcro from roughiing up the lycra and tearing the gloves.

I think that this comment from the blog wraps it up pretty good, at least that's what I do also...

[Boonen]

I think that this comment from the blog wraps it up pretty good, at least that's what I do also...

I just make sure that the velcro pieces are closed so the gloves don't stick on other clothes, works for me but I guess the 'lingery bag' would work even better.

[jeremyb]

boonen----you have to register then enter the special password, i wanted people to email me for it but it doesnt matter i guess---- the special password is: lightweight

Thanks Jeremy, I had trouble with registering with PBWiki itself, so I hadn't even come around in sending you an e-mail yet. I just tried again and now it worked, I'll add some weights of stuff I have weighed myself and have pictures of on a scale when I got the time.

PS: just read a bit more on your blog, I think it's great and wanted you to know that I always wash my gloves with the rest of my cycling clothes, it keeps them nice and soft

PS2: I edited your opening site just a bit by adding a link to the registering site (I had a bit of a hard time finding it so it might be helpfull to others) I'm pretty sure you had it on there a few days ago? Hope you don't mind!

No problem, thanks for posting.