Originally Posted by Jose R
And note the weight of the bikes. From a low of 15.4lbs for Vicky P's ride to a whopping 20.7lbs for the pursuit bikes.
I was one of the bike checkers for the World Cup in Manchester (very boring job) lightest bike was an aluminium Pinarello at 6.5kg (had to tape 300g of chain inside his seatpost to make the 6.8 kg weight limit!!!), heaviest was custom steel frame belonging to a Caribbean sprinter, weighed in at about 11.5 kg.
The Looks, BTs and Corimas so widely used at world level are not light, the GB bikes were consistently the lightest carbon framed bikes.