The cycling industry’s obsession with minimising weight is starting to giving me the shits. We are paying more and more for less and less…
An example I came across today:
Chorus 11 speed D-Skeleton Brakes
“Weight: 318g (The nominal weight does not take account of the sometimes considerable quantities of grease used in the assembly of the products.)”
It’s pretty funny really. I can imagine some major douche buying these calipers, taking them out of their Gold-plated Campag wrappers and putting them onto their precise digital scales… Only to be horrified when the readout does not match the claimed weight. The horror!
plucked , not shaved. shaving still leaves the hair follicle behind. there’s like 6 grams saving just in that. and leave every second eyelash, they’re performance enhancing equipment
To be fair I think most of us had trouble walking after the hour. I had trouble sitting too.
It’s a Selle Italia carbon (of course). It’s really just a bit of moulded plastic with Ti rails. The shape is actually very comfy but it’s so fucking hard that it’s only good for an hour or two.
I could barely lower myself to the ground. Sitting on the fence rail worked best I found.
The difference was, most of us were able to recover and then ride off for coffee, Mikey only made it a few hundred metres before calling the team car. Kids - just say no to arse hatchets.