Originally Posted by
tomato coupe
A bog-standard Wolf Tooth compression plug costs $15 and weighs 26 g. A plug of epoxy with the same dimensions weighs about 16 g, not including a threaded insert or star nut. Not much of a weight or cost savings, if any ...
The ones I did were in 1 inch steerers where there were fewer plug selections.
10 grams seems like a very small number, but that's 10 grams for free. Compare that to most of the things people put on their bikes to save weight or decrease drag and it seem like a no-brainer.
No one is suggesting everyone should glue in their plug. But no one has really made an argument for not gluing it in.