View Single Post
Old 05-02-08, 10:39 AM
  #25  
Paul L.
Senior Member
 
Paul L.'s Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Arizona, USA
Posts: 2,601

Bikes: Mercier Corvus (commuter), Fila Taos (MTB), Trek 660(Got frame for free and put my LeMans Centurian components on it)

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
I think the fact that you as a rider have mass and therefore inertia would compensate for the lack of rotational weight in the wheels. The bike would still be structurally holding you up so it might be a bit unwieldy when not riding (you would need to carry it as opposed rolling it with one hand) but when riding I think it would just be the same as if you had lost 15-20 pounds. You might get some extra vibration descending since there would be no mass in the frame to stabalize vibrations.
__________________
Sunrise saturday,
I was biking the backroads,
lost in the moment.
Paul L. is offline