Because of the effects of salt and sand, winter bikers generally avoid using expensive lightweight bicycles.

Required rake angle arose from early times when lightweight bicycles suffered fork failures from road shock.

Cyclo-cross bicycles are similar to racing bicycles: lightweight, with narrow tires and drop handlebars.

Vintage road bicycles, also known as classic lightweight bicycles, are generally older bicycles with frames which are manufactured using steel tubing and lugs.

In 2003 they employed 18 workers building lightweight bicycles.

Since 1936 Ellis Briggs have produced lightweight bicycles and continue to do so to this day.

By 1972, a new wave of lightweight derailleur-equipped bicycles led a wave of new consumer interest in recreational bicycling, resulting in the bike boom.

By 1979 he had developed a custom built lightweight bicycle which was uniquely suited to the wet and muddy off-road conditions found in the south-east of England.

A cyclo-cross racer may lift or carry his bike as many as 30 times in one 60 minute race, increasing the desire for a lightweight bicycle.

Rattray were probably the largest maker of lightweight bicycles in Scotland and were in business between 1901 and 1982.