A lighter road bike won't necessarily make you ride faster, and lighter bikes and feathery components are usually less durable and require a bit more love than their heavier, more robust cousins — but there's nothing like riding an uber light bike.
While your Garmin may tell you you're not actually up for a KOM on your favourite loop, you'll definitely feel like you are. Lightweight roadies have a snap about them and they definitely feel faster, and fast = fun — even if it's only in your head.
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The quest for a lighter ride is taken to the extreme by a special breed of rider, the Weight Weenie. Weight Weenies can be found tinkering in their garage, replacing each alloy bolt on their bike with titanium ones, cutting off the “useless” part of the seat post, and we’ve even seen a particularly wild one drilling holes in his saddle to "make it lighter."
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There are plenty of obvious upgrades you can make to shed heaps of weight, like a shiny new set of wheels or a full drivetrain replacement, but we’ve put together a list of slightly cheaper ways to save. They may be are small on their own, but if you add them up you may be taping fishing weights to your seat post before your next race.
1. Buy latex inner tubes
The absolute best place to shed weight is on the outside of the wheel: rim, tyre and tube. This is because the rotational weight is what you're fighting as the wheels are spinning and it's said that the energy required to spin the mass on the wheel is twice the mass on the frame.
2. Use lightweight tyres
3. Change to velo plugs
4. Use lightweight bar tape
5. Get carbon everything
6. Go paint free
7. Change your cassette
8. Keep your hands out of the cookie jar
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