Originally Posted by
Wogsterca
There is a sweet spot, like many other things, where up to that point you can lose a lot, for a relatively small investment. For example, say you have and older bicycle with steel bars, they are rusty and crusty, weigh 764g and are bent all to ****. Now for $35 you can get a nice AL bar, that weighs 310g, nice weight saving of a pound, they are not rusty or crusty and are a nice classic bar shape.
It's highly unlikely that anybody here is riding such a bicycle. And such a bike is likely going to be inordinately heavy in other places.
And even for $35, the one pound saving is going to provide an
undetectable amount of performance. That is, there is
no "sweet spot" for normal riders.
Tiny differences in performance are valuable to professional racers but the differences in performance are still tiny!
Originally Posted by
grimace308
while not trying to sound too contentious, i dont buy that one bit and id like to see a link to that article.
See what the following says about the effect of weight. 20 oz of lead weighs 3.05 lbs.
http://noping.net/english/