Originally Posted by
Iride01
Do you worry about whether alcohol content is measured by weight as opposed to volume when you drink? <grin>
No, but I don't see how that's analogous or has anything to do with what we're talking about. It certainly doesn't result in the same degree of error: water is about 25% denser than ethanol, while your curling example was exaggerated by 1000%+ over the actual impact that the bicycle weight discrepancy being discussed will have on most cyclists' climbing.
It was just an exaggerated sample. I didn't think I had to make proportional examples. Especially since the OP hasn't disclosed their body weight or bike weight. <grin>
It's a huge exaggeration regardless of disclosure of body weight. Even if the OP is only 80 pounds, it would be a roughly 10% difference: still very small compared with the 67% of your curling example.
When operating within a context where the other person obviously isn't familiar with the physics, I view such exaggeration as very dishonest.