Smokin Joe
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I wouldn't want to ride this in a crosswind...
http://www.velonews.com/article/73034/the-7pound-road-bike-
http://www.velonews.com/article/73034/the-7pound-road-bike-
stevenb said:I agree Keith. He's set out to achieve his goal and he's done so.
That's fine, but he'll be distraught when the next obsessive betters the weight by a whisker.
Alan Frame said:Obsession is very sad, in my opinion.
simonali said:There're forums devoted to this obsession where they all sit around and discuss how to shave grammes off their bikes.
Weight Weenies is the most popular one. I sometimes have a look there coz they seem to know all about the latest bits way before us normal people!
Alan Frame;208339][quote=stevenb said:I agree Keith. He's set out to achieve his goal and he's done so.
That's fine, but he'll be distraught when the next obsessive betters the weight by a whisker.
Merckx was the rider who first started to lighten his bike by drilling holes all over it in the early seventies. It became something of a fad for a few years and every other rider you saw had attacked his chainrings and brake levers with a Black & Decker. People were even slotting headtubes and bottom bracket shells and covering the holes with insulating tape. However, Eddies bikes were lightened by trained engineers who new what they were doing. Many a clubman wrecked their expensive kit following a dose of incompetant over enthusiasm with the drill.Alan Frame said:As bike bits can be very expensive,I have instead decided to drill holes in my kneecaps, pull all my teeth out, remove all extraneous flesh and have a good dump before each ride.
I'm afraid this hang-up about bicycle weight reduction does irritate me. I remember seeing one of Alf Enger's time trial machines and it had so many drilled out bits on it, it looked like it was moth-eaten. Probably increased wind resistance too !
At the end of the day it's about the rider, not the bike. Eddy Merckx could have beaten most of us on a Halfords special.