Originally Posted by
terrymorse
Yes, pros are riding faster than ever before, and it's because they are riding heavier bikes. Nothing else has changed in recent years that could possibly explain the speed increase.
Makes perfect sense.
In an ideal world the pro teams would obviously want their bikes to be right on the UCI minimum weight. But they have purposely made a small weight trade-off to achieve a faster overall solution. Bike weight is less important to performance than obsessive weight weenies imagine.