Originally Posted by
Bacciagalupe
• If you're getting dropped on a club ride, it's not because you have an extra 5 pounds on the bike. It's the engine. You know it, I know it, and everyone else on the ride knows it.
I don't think you have shown this. Maybe what people call a club ride varies, but here there are a lot of pacelines with categorized riders; one of the effects of being in a club with ~4000 riders. Five pounds will pull you out of a group of roughly equal riders over a long ride.