Originally Posted by
Koyote
This part is especially funny, as you're stating that you value your own personal and anecdotal judgment above other people's personal and anecdotal judgments:
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but... actually I'm trying to hypothesize why his might be different. Such a hypothesis in an audio analogy, for example, would be that people actually hear differently. I'm just guessing that the rider may not have experience with heavier wheels, and that if such a rider lost two pounds of weight himself, and then was given a bike identical except for an extra pound on each wheel because of heavier rims and tires, he would prefer to gain a couple of pounds, and get his old bike back, if that was the choice. Just a guess.