It's not a super-light bicycle that's the real deal. It's lightweight wheels. Rotating mass is the mass you really feel. The rest of the bike only matters for ease of handling (it's always easier to throw around a lighter bike). Note the fastest bikes out there are undergeared 45lb monsters (DH race bikes, which can hit 100Km/h at times, faster than any TdF rider goes).
I've got a ~30lb MTB and a ~23lb utant commuter. For the most part they perform fairly similarly. Both have 2000gm wheelsets. The MTB was a real dog though with the stock wheelset which was a full kilo heavier. -Adam On 12/30/07, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep, only 40 lbs. Everyone claims that you need a super > light bicycle. With me on it this bicycle is only 10% > heavier than the aluminum one I gave away several years back. > > She ain't much different than the one me Gran-pa gave me > when I was 10. And you have to admit she goes well with that > hat. Could you imaging riding a day-glow full-suspension > mountain bike with that hat? > > > Graywolf (Tom Rittenhouse) > Website: http://www.graywolfphoto.com > Blog: http://www.graywolfphoto.com/journal/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > keith_w wrote: > > graywolf wrote: > >> <GRIN!> > >> I think there was supposed to be an H in there somewhere. > >> Translation: 3-speed bicycle. > > > > And, a right purty bike she is, too! > > Looks light and limber. > > > > keith whaley > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
