Originally Posted by
njkayaker
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!
See what the following says about the effect of weight. 20 oz of lead weighs 3.05 lbs.
http://noping.net/english/
The reason for replacing old crusty, rusty steel bars all bent to **** with new AL ones though has a lot more then simply the weight difference as the benefit, even if the weight was identical I would probably still want to replace an old crusty and rusty bars all bent to **** with newer ones. When it comes to weight difference though, a lot of it has to do with the amount of difference, and what is a detectable difference for example take 2 riders, both are 100kg, in fact they are identical twins who have the same athletic ability the same genetics, the same amount of experience, one has a bike that is 9.80kg and the other has a bike that is 9.79kg total for one is 109.9 the other is 109.79 a difference of 10g the bikes are identical except for the carbon bars, one has bars that are 10g lighter. I think that would be statistically insignificant.