Amazing. When I said I was going to drop 10 I didn’t plan on losing muscle. I stated same level of fitness. I’m around 14% body fat, maybe I can cut my calf muscle off for 10lbs lol you avoided the question. Tsk tsk

On the gears comment. You know who you are. Way to not add anything to the discussion. After a few hours riding the bridges just isn’t fun to get home

Now to the intelligent fella who shared the article. Thank you. It’s reasonable to expect with the same effort to go almost 2mph faster and have a much easier time on climbs

Ok I see what’s going on here. We all hate the fixed gear guy because you nerds love your gears and think you’re so cool shifting and clipping in, and wear spandex with sewed in diapers and let’s also point out choosing the easiest gear possible to ride in, I see you out there. Option B youre too stupid to understand my initial statement. At no point did I request advice on my bike.

I specifically asked what effect losing 10lbs would be. Think physics not biology. Maybe show some inkling of proof, maybe even a graph or calculation. Duh get some gears. Never should of mentioned the climbs, I apologize for misleading you. But I also stated I’m going 30ph so do you really think I’m out of shape and can’t get up the hills?

Now......with everyone mentioning 10lbs or 4% lighter not going to help much. Clearly you did not bother reading the article that was so politely shared.

I expected some actual inteligent comments here. Clearly the bulk of you spend more time trolling here than riding.

“Here’s another one. On a hilly loop course, a 20-pound weight difference in bikes yielded a 13.6-percent drop in speed. Extrapolating that to your 12-pound weight difference, you’d be looking at an eight-percent speed loss.

Personally, I would find a six-percent or eight-percent speed loss to be rather unbearable, but if you don’t care about that, then no need to spend the extra money”
― Lennard