Originally Posted by
Spoonrobot
Ok you read the last paragraph which was a little playful speculation on my part. Here's the main point you did not pay attention to:
At this point I've done dozens of gravel races/events compromising thousands of miles of varied terrain and I don't have any interest in debating what I've seen, experienced and concluded with a neophyte who has no standing to argue. Good luck, read more and post less.
I think you've reached this conclusion with about as much evidence as some of your other conclusions.
By the way, since you seem to have missed it: I'm not arguing with your claim about bike weight vs picking lines through rough terrain. There's nothing to argue over, since terrain is always unique and has not been quantified.
But physics
is subject to quantification -- it's why there are "laws" of physics. Science is science.