Dolan Preffisio... a light bike?

notfastenough wrote:

Upgrading to RS80s will save about 330g.

Upgrading to Ultegra will save between 300g and 500g - can't locate weight for Tiagra.

Call it 700g total reduction. Nothing wrong with that, but if you're going to do it, don't do it just for weight.

As for the frame, ok it's no lightweight, but then weight isn't everything, by a long shot.

As per my post on the Aero bikes thread, I'm not blowen away by the change in feel due to my ~500g bike weight reduction. I get considerably more difference from losing 4kg of body weight.

Surely that is the most obvious statement ever
You will always see a considerable improvement by a 3.5 kilo difference but the point here is if you can shave 1kg with little financial outlay do it , three things hurt a cyclist .....weight, gravity and wind resistance weight is the easiest to alter

chiv30 wrote:

Surely that is the most obvious statement ever
You will always see a considerable improvement by a 3.5 kilo difference but the point here is if you can shave 1kg with little financial outlay do it , three things hurt a cyclist .....weight, gravity and wind resistance weight is the easiest to alter

Perhaps so, but my point was that everyone raves about how a good set of wheels will transform your ride, you'll fly up hills etc - after shedding a similar amount of bike weight as the OP, I thought the difference was much less pronounced than that.