Thread: Opinion: how important is weight for a gravel bike?
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Old 12-18-18, 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by gus6464
Seems like there a lot of Ted Kings on here that can extract every ounce of performance from 18lbs vs 25lbs. I dare anyone here with a CX bike to take out my Slate with 650x47s on a gravel road and tell me it's slower.
so why did Ted switch from the Slate to the superX?

because even Ted knows lighter is better.
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