How much do you care about bike weight?
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Nobody I know rides until they've burned a specific amount of energy=calories and then stops. Excepting special cases, for a given route=ride=course a person will do more work on a heavier/less efficient bike that a lighter/more efficient bike, and more work requires more energy/calories - it's physics and common sense.
I recently had this moronic instagram influencer tell people to train on a gravel bike for the same reason you are suggesting.
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The only valid point I can think of for using a heavier bike to train with is if it keeps you from out running the others you might want to ride with in a group. That way you can put out the effort you need to keep your body at your level of fitness.
Pretty much the same thing with those little drogue chutes some like to use. Why they use them solo, I can't fathom, unless they have a speed limit they can exceed.
Pretty much the same thing with those little drogue chutes some like to use. Why they use them solo, I can't fathom, unless they have a speed limit they can exceed.
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Nobody I know rides until they've burned a specific amount of energy=calories and then stops. Excepting special cases, for a given route=ride=course a person will do more work on a heavier/less efficient bike that a lighter/more efficient bike, and more work requires more energy/calories - it's physics and common sense.
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If you could purchase one of two bikes, both bikes being identical in every way, except that one weighs less, which do you buy if they cost the same?
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Two bikes can't be identical in every way but weigh different amounts. That extra mass must affect performance. How and to what degree depends on where that extra mass is coming from.
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Nobody I know rides until they've burned a specific amount of energy=calories and then stops. Excepting special cases, for a given route=ride=course a person will do more work on a heavier/less efficient bike that a lighter/more efficient bike, and more work requires more energy/calories - it's physics and common sense.
Even outside of serious training considerations, people who have an easier time going farther in a given timeframe tend to choose longer routes.
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Thing is, 8.4kg is not much lower than my current one. Yes that isn't disc but still. I feel like if I spend some money, it should also be light, no?
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The only valid point I can think of for using a heavier bike to train with is if it keeps you from out running the others you might want to ride with in a group. That way you can put out the effort you need to keep your body at your level of fitness.
Pretty much the same thing with those little drogue chutes some like to use. Why they use them solo, I can't fathom, unless they have a speed limit they can exceed.
Pretty much the same thing with those little drogue chutes some like to use. Why they use them solo, I can't fathom, unless they have a speed limit they can exceed.
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Nobody I know rides until they've burned a specific amount of energy=calories and then stops. Excepting special cases, for a given route=ride=course a person will do more work on a heavier/less efficient bike that a lighter/more efficient bike, and more work requires more energy/calories - it's physics and common sense.
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Sorry but what are you talking about? If I want to ride 200 watts, I ride 200 watts. On a faster, lighter bike I just travel longer than on a slower heavier bike. But my average watts will be 200 in both cases. "Amount of energy" really is about of power you put out and that is entirely independent of the bike.
I recently had this moronic instagram influencer tell people to train on a gravel bike for the same reason you are suggesting.
I recently had this moronic instagram influencer tell people to train on a gravel bike for the same reason you are suggesting.
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Work is simply the integral of the product of force and distance over time. For a given route, if you ride a light bike and then a heavy bike so that total time, distance (+rider position et al) on both rides are the same, you would have to generate more force with your body on the heavy bike, thus burn more calories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_(physics)
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Work is simply the integral of the product of force and distance over time. For a given route, if you ride a light bike and then a heavy bike so that total time, distance (+rider position et al) on both rides are the same, you would have to generate more force with your body on the heavy bike, thus burn more calories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_(physics)
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Work is simply the integral of the product of force and distance over time. For a given route, if you ride a light bike and then a heavy bike so that total time, distance (+rider position et al) on both rides are the same, you would have to generate more force with your body on the heavy bike, thus burn more calories. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_(physics)
Again, no one is disputing physics, we're talking about how people ride in the real world with regard to intensity.
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Sure. If one bike weight was given on a 56 frame and the other on a 47, yes of course. Additionally, you mention that both bikes have the same groupset, but bike manufacturers are known to not always use full groupsets on budget bikes. If both are listed as having a 105 groupset, make sure that both include the same crankset, wheel hubs, and cassette (an 11-28 will weigh less than an 11-34).
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It was a slimy attempt to be cute by altering what you wrote. You have to wonder about people who lie so blatantly when the truth is just a few posts above.
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i ride s freaking 61cm frame... at that size lite bikes are not so lite any more.... so i just bought what i wanted and to hell with the few or many more grams... im throwing 2 lbs of water on her anyway...
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It's the interweb... you can't take anything seriously.
You know the mods can edit your post and make it look like you said things you didn't say.
Trolls have many of "cute" tricks, like creating a user id with a period at the end.When they post you don't see the . and they will think it's you.
You know the mods can edit your post and make it look like you said things you didn't say.
Trolls have many of "cute" tricks, like creating a user id with a period at the end.When they post you don't see the . and they will think it's you.