The weight you carry may be your own, to praraphrase the title of a Flannery O'Connor story. Weight is weight, except I think for wheel weight when climbing. At any rate, climbing, in a higher gear no less, has consistently -- more than a decade -- seemed easier on my lightest bike with 190 gram tires than on other bikes. All my road bikes are set up with very much the same saddle to cranks and saddle to bar position. But there is the other still large variable of tire quality.
My own take is not to obsess about bike weight (my daydream of lightening the Ram notwithstanding) but to remove it from the bike when affordable opportunity serves and when this does not conflict with other, more important things like pretty parts (Phil Wood hubs are not light). Me, I could stand to lose 15 lb or so, which would take me back to my college graduation weight of 155 (long torso'd 5'10"), but I don't obsess about that, either. On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Michael <john11.2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Assuming the 1-manpower engine stays the same. > > From time to time I think of shaving weight off bikes and I wonder if it > really matters for a non-racer person like me who could stand to lose 25 > lbs. > I think if I lost the weight it would be much easier to turn the cranks > than if I shaved 4 lbs. off the bike. > > But I am not sure how these mechanical things work, so I was wondering. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ Patrick Moore Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Etats Unis ************************************* "In yourself right now is all the place you've got." Flannery O'Connor -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
