500g off wheels/frame/rider = same difference?

[Yellow Saddle]

One factor that comes out of the above, eg, which didn't emerge from the other 'discussion', or the linked irrefutable logic, is the significance of stopping/starting. I can intuitively get the idea that once things are rolling, it's only the 'system weight' that really matters, but when a lot of acceleration/deceleration is involved, there might be an issue. Which might, if the case, be an issue for me, since most of my riding is inner-city, and long-distance cruising is a rarity.

But like I say, I raised the issue out of interest and curiosity, and thought a broader discussion might offer more grist to my curiosity mill, and would almost certainly be more interesting. So far, looks like I was right! (About that, at least.)

This tells me you didn't bother to read the linked thread and would rather someone give you a short summary in such a way that it agrees with your prejudice on the matter.

Let me then do it for you and put this second-guessing to rest: "Taking weight off a wheel is 16.7 times more important than removing weight from elsewhere on a bicycle and by saving just 50.2 grams of weight at the wheel's outer circumference you can improve your commuting Strava record by between 11.2% and 18.6% depending on whether it is a 26" or 29" wheel."

 

[Andrew_Culture]

"grinding axes"?? I imagine a nice pair of carbon ceramic bearings would fix that!

I'd recommend necking hour.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Actually that should have been 'I'd recommend checking your knees'. Never mind.

 

[neil_merseyside]

*mass

I knew I'd get something wrong so it's a great mass off my mind to realise what it was ;-)