Originally Posted by
Dunbar
Remember that the next time you're tempted to spend a lot of money to shave grams off your bike. Just work on raising your FTP a watt or two or losing weight instead.
fortunately, none of these are mutually exclusive.
if someone's well-trained and 8 or 9% body fat, it's not like it's
easy to make changes.
even if someone has weight to lose, dropping weight on the bike still makes a difference. whether that difference is of any significance is another matter. (most of the time i think people fixate on weights of bike parts, but i think part of that is that it is easy to understand/quantify differences in grams. aero differences are harder for most to understand.)