Favourite Weight Weenie tips..
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I once gave blood 2/3rds of the way round a 50 mile ride..
The nurse had to check with the doctor to see if I was allowed to donate
classic33
Leg End Member
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
I don't shave my legs, and I'm not so hard as to do the "back, sack, and crack" stuff, but I find that trimming my nasal and ear hairs gives me a considerable competitive advantage.
Racing roadkill
Guru
Take the top cap out of the stem, as soon as you’ve tensioned the headset, and chuck it away.
Racing roadkill
Guru
They are there only to satisfy packaging regulations, in certain territories. However, they do come in handy if you are inflating a tube and you don’t want the valve stem to push too far back into the rim, and give yourself an instant puncture. Also they stop any annoying valve rattle, however a square of insulating tape, will do the same, and save a couple of grammes.
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Levo-Lon
Guru
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Swiss cheese your handlebars, stem and seat post with a drill to save weight.
Shorter cranks.
Narrower section tyres weight less.
Removed unused bottle boss bolts. Hold on a bottle cage with only a single bolt.
Remove the bolt from the handlebar clamp and pop rivet the bars in position.
Remove as may links from your chain as possible, inasmuchnis compatible with the functioning of the gears.
Remove every second or third spoke.
Fit a smaller seat.
Cut an inch off the ends of the brake levers.
Use the thinnest brake cable inners possible.
Buy a bike with an unpainted finish.
Or just have a good solid Forrest Gump before going for a ride and lost three times as much.
Shorter cranks.
Narrower section tyres weight less.
Removed unused bottle boss bolts. Hold on a bottle cage with only a single bolt.
Remove the bolt from the handlebar clamp and pop rivet the bars in position.
Remove as may links from your chain as possible, inasmuchnis compatible with the functioning of the gears.
Remove every second or third spoke.
Fit a smaller seat.
Cut an inch off the ends of the brake levers.
Use the thinnest brake cable inners possible.
Buy a bike with an unpainted finish.
Or just have a good solid Forrest Gump before going for a ride and lost three times as much.
Racing roadkill
Guru
In a kind of ‘anti weight weenie’ way, I know of some actual racers, who were on bikes that didn’t make the minimum UCI weight, hang chain links inside the seat posts, to make the weight, then remove them whilst racing, or even freeze water into the frame, which melted away during the stage / race.
Grant Fondo
Guru
- Location
- Cheshire
Give your finger and toe nails a really close clipping. Saves me about 200g 
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Get all the snot out of your nose.
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
6.7kg for my bike. Struggling to get it lighter.
Rocky
Hello decadence
You could get rid of that Di2 stuff and get a mechanical groupset - that would save you a further 80grms6.7kg for my bike. Struggling to get it lighter.
youngoldbloke
The older I get, the faster I used to be ...
Fixed would be even lighter.
