Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
You said it as well as can be done.
Don't sell yourself short.
Originally Posted by
rpenmanparker
Good for you, but my experience does not agree with yours. Going from 19 lb steel to 14 lb carbon with 1,270 g wheels I see absolutely no effect on my performance. Zero, zilch, nada, zippee-do-da. Riding your loop on a given day on both bikes would be a telling experiment. Maybe two days in a row, new bike first one day and second the next day. Average the results for each bike over the two days and compare. Personally I don't believe it.