Originally Posted by
drainyoo
Not sure what your average speed would be but you would definitely feel the difference. That's almost 2 lbs of rotation weigh that's been removed. Imagine you attach 2lbs worth of lead to your wheels and riding then removing the 2lbs. You will definitely notice.
I know of a shop owner over in r.b.t who regularly does blind tests where riders are unable to tell if the bottles on their own bike are full or empty while riding it seated. This is true of novices all the way up to cat 2 racers. That's 3.5 lbs, and nobody has ever been able to repeatably figure out if it's there or not.
If you get out of the saddle and swing the bike, you can feel it, but that's not because you're going faster.