I haven't ridden my bike in a month and I'm totally depressed about it. I can only ride on the weekends and first it rained stupidly hard all weekend then I HAD to work on the house all weekend because the next weekend my in-laws were coming so all of a sudden I haven't touched the poor beast in a month. So yesterday I pulled the Kogswell out and started pulling the bar tape to fix a little un-wrapping problem. Once I got the tape off I decided to go whole hog and pulled off both brakes and the computer and everything I could find that the bike didn't NEED. Not a huge pile of parts but with most of the weight coming from right over the front wheel the feel of the bike has totally changed. And I like it a lot. I haven't used the brakes for a while anyway, I just kept them on there for riding with a geared friend on the weekend to prevent idiot pileups. Since he decided to not bike anymore I don't have that restriction so come saturday I'm off. Looking forward to just riding.