Does the weight of your bike really make a difference?

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  • neeb
    neeb Posts: 4,473
    zest28 said:

    I disagree. I used to have a light weight climbing bike and that thing was not fun to ride on. Very twichy and unstable at high speed.

    My "heavy" aero bike is much more enjoyable to ride on, as it is on rails.

    That's not a product of the weight though, it's down to the stiffness, geometry and handling. My 5.8 kg Ridley Helium SLX is rock solid at speed, the best descending bike I've ever had.

    It's true that some light weight bikes can handle poorly because they've made the weight savings in the wrong places - if the frame is flexy, especially at the front, it will feel sketchy at high speeds. But being light weight alone won't make a bike unstable or twitchy - the weight of the bike is still a small percentage of the total system weight.

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