weight saving

sloxam
sloxam Posts: 861
edited January 2009 in Workshop
apart fom your gut, where is the best place to save weight and why? wheels or frame?
i hate hills (cos i'm fat)

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  • Slow Downcp
    Slow Downcp Posts: 3,041
    Wheels - always shave weight off rotating mass first. Tyres and rims more important than hubs.Pedals and chainset may also be worth considering
    Carlsberg don't make cycle clothing, but if they did it would probably still not be as good as Assos
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    What have you got? The only way we can see if there's anything obvious to change.....
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  • Simon Notley
    Simon Notley Posts: 1,263
    The outside of the wheels, i.e. rims and tyres - because you have to spin them up to speed when you accelerate as well as simply moving them forwards.
  • jellikins
    jellikins Posts: 153
    My set up is

    2008 5.2 Madone
    Bonnrager Race Lite wheels
    Bontrager Race Lite X tyres
    Shimano Ultegra SL Compact
    Look Keo Carbon Ti pedals

    Really can't aford £500 for new wheels to reduce weight there, as I think that is what I would have top spend to make any spend worthwhile on the exisitg wheels?

    How about lighter tyres and inner tubes?
  • singlespeedexplosif
    singlespeedexplosif Posts: 1,564
    £60 on a pair of Pro 3 Race and a pair of conti supersonics seems a good move to me.
  • Slow Downcp
    Slow Downcp Posts: 3,041
    Agree on the tyres - Pro Race are superb tyres.
    Carlsberg don't make cycle clothing, but if they did it would probably still not be as good as Assos
  • SDP
    SDP Posts: 665
    conti attack/force tyres
    650c supersonics - yest before you ask they fit better than 700c ..never pinched one fittimg 'em
    light rim tape
    pair KCNC skewers

    lighter rings for your chainset

    bolt tuning where needed
    lighter cassette ..

    bobs yiour uncle
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  • sloxam
    sloxam Posts: 861
    redddraggon wrote:
    What have you got? The only way we can see if there's anything obvious to change.....
    summer steed......
    synapse ultegra sl
    kysirium elite wheels
    all condition armadillo tyres
    winter hack.......
    giant ocr 2
    aksiums and bonty hardcases
    not too bothered about the winter hack its the summer bike i was looking at.
    i hate hills (cos i'm fat)

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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    sloxam wrote:
    kysirium elite wheels
    all condition armadillo tyres.

    Heavy wheels and heavy tyres.....tyres and wheels would make a hell of a difference.
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  • martin56
    martin56 Posts: 213
    Would all this weight saving include the rim tape and if so which ones??? :wink:
    Still going at fifty!But for how mutch longer
  • ozzzyosborn206
    ozzzyosborn206 Posts: 1,340
    think how much rim tape weighs, even if you took it off and didnt replace it you wouldn.t notice it!!
  • SDP
    SDP Posts: 665
    it all adds up

    10gm rim tape/ 40gm saving on a supersonic tube / say 50gm on a pro3 or attack force

    so 100gm per wheel ....how much extra in £ are paying for A 200gm less wheelset ??

    difference between say a fulcrum 5 & a fulcrum 3 ??

    its the pocket money savings that add up & give best returns
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  • martin56
    martin56 Posts: 213
    Um ye get your point! Cheers.
    Still going at fifty!But for how mutch longer

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