Medium size tires and (relatively) light weight bike

DrSchteeve

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Made the plunge to first eBike with a Radpower StepThru. Loving the eBike experience, but for my next eBike (I have 2 homes so I need 2 eBikes) I would like something lighter weight (Radrover is ~69#, so anything 50# or less would be awesome). I would like some off-roading ability - hence larger tires - but that's going to be relatively light so I think I can get by with larger, but not necessarily "fat" tires (which should help w/ the weight as well). Any light(er) bikes w/ 2-3" tires?
 
The raleigh musceo https://electricbikereview.com/raleigh/misceo-ie/ is 55 lb and has 1.75" tires.
How much do you weigh? If you're 200 lb or over, anything lighter should be titanium or carbon fiber frame.
I don't know about installing wider tires on a bike. My bike won't take anything bigger than 2.1" without scraping the fenders.
The premium brands like trek, giant, cannondale might extend up into super lightweight off road frames. There is a carbon fiber frame mountain bike assembled in Colorado, I forget the name. Costs about $11000.
 
My Como is just under 49 pounds with 650b x 2.4 ? stock tires.
 
Caution about advertised weights: majority of website shown weights may be "size small" or smallest size for the frameset.
And for all mid to higher end roadbikes they are almost always sold with no pedals so the published weights are with no pedal weights.

I never understood why the high end bikes never came with pedals...seems odd.
 
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