[QUOTE=79pmooney;17303513][snip]
"Lowering your bike weight by 3# makes you 1.6% faster when you are climbing 25% grades. " [QUOTE]
:-) I won't be climbing "25% grades" anytime soon. Nor will you. Or Batman or Superman or Wonder Woman or the Incredible Hulk.
Which makes it a rather odd calculation and/or premise for argument. Just my opinion. I could be wrong.