John Francis wrote: > A bit more than a pound, nowadays. At the Amgen Tour of California > one of the major suppliers (Cervelo, perhaps - not Trek, anyway) has > a bike hanging on a scale in their booth. The scale reads 13lb 8oz. > > These days the hunt is for ounces. The latest trick is in the system > used to track the position of riders on the road. It used to be a > little transponder carried by the rider, but then somebody had the > bright idea of going to a passive system (rather like the security > cards used to gain entry to many buildings), and putting the support > electronics in the team cars. Apparently the extra weight of the > battery and associated electronics was worth moving off the bike. >
As a friend of mine says, if you want to save weight on your bike, take a crap before the race.... :-P -- Christian http://photography.skofteland.net -- 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.
