Originally Posted by
NoWhammies
I focus more on keeping the weight off me and than I do my bike. I think it is much easier, and healthier, to focus on keeping me weight in check as opposed to the weight of my bike.
Ultimately, I think this thread is really about what we do to motivate ourselves to ride and/or lose weight. It's a pretty complicated relationship between the two things and it's interesting how many different ways people approach it.
Also, really funny hen people try to convince everyone they have it right and everybody else has it wrong.
Like I said above, I think OP has figured out a way to use his obsession with a light bike to motivate himself to lose weight, and you have a completely different, basically opposite approach--in effect "screw the bike weight, I'll lose weight". What's really cool is you're both right.