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Serious bicyclists say that if you reduce the weight of a bike, it is more effective if you do so in the wheels rather than in the frame. Why would reducing weight in the wheels make it easier on the bicyclist than reducing the same amount in the frame?
6 years ago

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bobpursley
More energy goes into the wheels rotating than the moving the frame, so if wheel mass is reduced, that energy is reduced.
6 years ago

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