Daniel B. Williams

18 de enero de 2017

Mine Is Accurate and Reliable: An Amazing Bargain

I have a fat bike that I have been riding for the better part of a year. The weight of this thing out of the box remains mysterious — it comes in different frame sizes that vary slightly in weight; tires and tubes of the same exact type can vary in weight by a surprising amount — the reasons for this vagueness are understandable. In addition, I have upgraded the handlebars, stem, and pedals and added a dropper seat post. I also modified the drive train by adding a 38-tooth “super-granny” cog to the rear cassette. These changes have all been wonderful for rideability, but each has also added a little bit of weight. I wanted to know, once and for all, how much my bike actually weighs.I found this little beauty of a scale searching Amazon and decided it looked like it might do the job. And for $10 at that.In wading through the seemingly endless and generally uninformative reviews for this product, I was a little surprised to see how few people seemed concerned about whether a $10 digital scale could actually come close to measuring what something really weighed. About a hundred fine folk were a little miffed that the dang fish kept wanting to fall off the hook thingy, but accuracy didn’t seem to be much of an issue.Well, accuracy was an issue for me. So, the first thing I did after giving the supplied pair of triple-A’s the fisheye and installing Duracells, was to weigh a dumbbell consisting of 4 weight plates, a solid steel handle, and two locking collars. It weighed exactly 27.28 lbs. which was very close to what it ought to weigh. I then turned the scale off, turned it back on, and weighed it again. 27.28 lbs. a second time. Good enough consistency check for me.Then I weighed the dumbbell on my Health-O-Meter balance beam body weight scale which I believe to be pretty accurate. This scale is graduated in 1/4 lb. increments. With the balance beam scale, I took my time centering the beam pointer, making micro-adjustments in the sliding balance weight without looking at the reading on the scale until the pointer was perfectly centered. On this scale my dumbbell weighed just a shade over 27 1/4 pounds, about as close as you can get on an analog scale to 27.28. Needless to say I was pretty much blown away by this. Coincidence? I really doubt it. Happy? You bet!So, I can say that MY scale seems to be both accurate and reliable way beyond $10 expectations. I have no idea how it will hold up, but it seems to be quite sturdily constructed. The backlit display and weight “lock” feature are also really nice to have.To weigh my bicycle I dipped into a big box of old straps and belts I keep in the garage and found a couple that make it convenient to hang the scale in a position from which it is easy hook up the bike and read the display. The strap that supports the bike weighs a couple of ounces, but I simply “tared” it out. With short lengths of rope or sturdy cord, a carabiner or two, and a hardware store S-hook, anybody ought to be able to weigh just about anything with this scale.File the barb off a big old hook, clip it on with a ‘biner, and even the dangedest fish will behave his self and get weighed right.

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Dr.meter Fish Scale, 110 lb Digital Luggage Scale with Tape | 110 lb Capacity, Backlit LCD, Built-In Tape, Includes 2 AAA Batteries, Compact Pocket Size Red

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Mine Is Accurate and Reliable: An Amazing Bargain

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