How I Saved Weight For Free! Making my bike faster overnight!
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Before rides I take a shit. Saves round 400grams
As a medical doctor I can assure you that, if you are an average person, you are actually saving much more 😅😂
pity you couldn't slam your stem & get rid of them spacers. I've just went back to GP5000s & latex tubes 👍🚴
Lol! Doctor approved!🧡⚙️
I have weighed myself once on a precise scale right before and after, the difference was about 750 grams 😂
Pro tips!
saddle looks heavy too, nice video!
I wouldn’t want my seat bolt flush tbh. Should have a couple threads poking out.
We actually had 2 but couldn’t quite show it on camera 🧡
W H Y ??????????
@@truthseeker8483 WHY so many ?????????
@@Chunky246 WHY so CHUNKY??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I do like a bit of weight saving, my biggest problem is the lump of lard on the saddle.
Same here.. If only it was so easy to drop a few kilos from that lump. 😂
@@fredflintstone4558 It is. If you know ,you know.
😂 the biggest but hardest weight saving strategy
Fully agree. Losing 2kg from the rider is way cheaper than upgrading components 😅
Change the rhythm of your trainings from time to time... It helps to shed weight .
Not sure removing bottle cages is an upgrade.
There weren't any on that frame, just the screws.
I havn't fitted bottle cages in 28 years.
@@peterwillson1355 you should do it - you will ride much faster!!! There is NO weight saving which can outweight the power loss due to dehydration
@fiddleronthebike So I'm not drinking because I don't have bottle cages ... Please put your thinking cap on.
unless you are using a camleback, which isn't UCI legal, and if you aren't racing you should be carrying more than all that weight saved in a saddlebag/toolkit, you basically said you are trying to save a maximum of 45 grams for your 15-25 mile maximum rides
once you remove the bottlecages, there is no point in riding this bike. you should take hydration more seriously if you want to make your riding at all enjoyable. but you do you i guess
Unless you were racing hill climb
@@Dyoochoob oh sure, get rid of the brakes too then. who needs them in hillclimb
@maciejzielinski4033 I do find the brakes help to get back down the hill, to the car and a nice drink.
@maciejzielinski4033 I do find the brakes help to get back down the hill, to the car and a nice drink.
Hydration pack is more aero anyways.
I'm surprised to see a clickbait title and clickbait thumbnail on this channel. The weight savings wasn't free like it says in your title, obviously, since the bulk of it came from those two new Schwalbe Aerothan inner tubes which sell for £27.99 each on your website (£55.98 [$70.81 USD at the current exchange rate] total, not including whatever taxes and shipping costs may be added to that when someone orders them from your website).
As for the thumbnail, the total weight savings was -250 grams, which is half of the "-500G" that you wrote in huge font on the thumbnail.
Exactly my thoughts. It was a very lame self-advertisement.
Think it this way, the inner tube is something that's destined to be replaced from overtime. If when that unfortunate time comes and you made this wise choice to choose a lighter one (you have to replace it won't you?), then this should be considered a free saving.
@@xuchenglin6256 "If when that unfortunate time comes and you made this wise choice to choose a lighter one, then this should be considered a free saving."
No, that doesn't make any sense at all. Those Aerothan TPU inner tubes are about 7 times more expensive than the ordinary butyl rubber inner tubes that he replaced, therefore it wasn't free at all; not even close.
Your reasoning would only make sense if the much lighter Aerothan TPU inner tubes were the same price as butyl rubber inner tubes, _and_ if the inexpensive inner tubes he already had were at the end of their usable lifespan (which can be many years).
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Grams counted for weight savings when the average cyclist could stand to easily lose multiple pounds and kilos just by diet alone. Including me.
Easy saving: cut the unused seatpost lenght
It’s on the minimum amount! This bike is just slightly to small for me!🧡
Im already a minimum insertion
@@TrickyTree84 HaHah! That's what She said...
@@OriginalTrev 😂. Exactly
@@BikespeedsTrimming the cables round the bars limits if you can extend the stem….
Was waiting for a flashback to the 80”s when “drillium” was the fad.
Still is.
@@returnofthenative Is it? Seems like an aerodynamic nightmare...
Oh man, I did that in 2002 on a shimano 105 crank. So, so stupid of me. Could feel it flex and my mere 60kg weight!
Who needs to drink water on a bike anyways. Unheard of...
No bottle cages. Think of the mass you can now lose as you sweat away with no liquids replenishment. 🙂
Technically that rd cable is too short right now, shimano wants a SMOOOOTH bend. Edit: cant believe bartape saving is that much
People who have their right brake lever operating the front brake use too much cable AND they have ugly and inefficient cable bends.
@@peterwillson1355 those people also often have ugly teeth
Those inner tubes are quite expensive may as well swap out those tyres for something like Schwalbe Pro1 for another 100g saving then carbon railed seat and then some Ritchey Logic WCS alloy bars and stem you would probably be under 8kg🙂
That’s coming in a wheel video! Thanks 🧡
There are Asian brands that are much less expensive
Here I am with my bike cameras, Garmin computer, and BT speaker and two water bottle cages and water dragging me down.
lol! Best way🧡
feels like loosing 500g of bodyweight is less effort 😜
Why not do both ?
It is not the same
That's 3k calories!
I changed over to ride now tubes. 36g and waaaaaay cheaper than a butyl tube
Would love to know where I can get free innertubes.
You could pretty easily get rid of the barrel adjuster for the front derailleur. I ditched mine years ago not for weight weenieing but rather because I couldn't be bothered splicing one in when I was redoing the noodles. I've never missed having one, I just adjust the derailleur once when I install the cable by tweaking the cable's position in and out of the pinch bolt, and it never drifts out of adjustment.
Also not to nit-pick but the Schwalbe tubes are around $32 each list price, so $64 is a fair chunk of money and about 10% the price of the whole bike, which is pretty far from free.
The newer Shimano 105 and "higher" front derailleurs (I'm not familiar with other brands) have a built-in adjustment screw so the inline adjuster is completely useless with those, anyway.
@@erikwiseman1702 Very convenient!
Well I found the opposite... When I discovered that when the FD won't send the chain towards the bigger chainring all I need to do is a small twist of that barrel while riding (no need to stop) then perfect shift again, I just can't live without it. Before I mastered this "craft" the FD out of alignment is such a PITA that usually I'll just live with it during the ride, or multiple rides till I find time to fix it. I too thought that barrel is useless because when you fix that on a work stand you just do it from the bolt as you said. When you are not actively pedaling the adjustment of this barrel is not very intuitive, it will be hard to get when it's at the correct position because you don't have a spinning crank. But while riding, this works like a charm... You twist it while pedaling, till the chain shifts, and now you are at the perfect position. I have to say that the purpose of this FD barrel is different than the RD one at the RD. I believe the purpose of its existence is to fix it on the go in situations like races. (just think about this, before electronics the pros will need it for race, it's faster than a bike change, and solved FD issue 100%, probably that's why and how you are supposed to use it.)
Save a bit more by not capping the ends of each cable, use superglue to stop the cable fraying
Bingo. Or a spot of nail polish.
Great vid, not sure I’ll go for all the tips for my 11kg gravel/road stealth bomber, but interesting all the same (especially the tubes). FWIW, I’ve lost 12kg of lard since I started taking cycling more seriously again 16 months back. It’s always the rider that’s the heaviest element. Thanks, enjoying the channel and workmanship.
The best advice in this whole video is to thread a nut onto a screw or bolt before cutting it, because it chases the cut end when you unscrew it. This is just a great tip for home mechanics and tinkerers, and took me a while to figure out on my own.
you wont go any faster, ffs, if you and the bike weigh lets say 80kg and you remove 250 gms. that means you and the bike now weigh 79,750 kilos, whats wrong with people, you wont go any faster!!!!!!!!!!!! do the sums, get some help
Why did you take the chain off to remove the back wheel ? 🤔
Ha ha. I was thinking the same!
Wasn't it to remove the protector?
And why not put a slotted supperlight chain on while it was off... Likewise the tyres aren't hugely light, and the saddle must weigh a ton. I reckon there's easily another 500g there without breaking sweat and overtrimming gear cables for 8g...
@@lfoster7601 don't forget he was trying to achieve weight savings without spending money
@@Nick-lm9hg Yet fitted £40 of in ner tubes? If they were "lying around" then the rest of the components can be covered by the same assumption.
I removed the frame and the wheels myself for ultimate weight savings ❤
Pretty pointless. 250g will make zero difference. The watt savings in rolling resistance changing those tubes would be orders of magnitude greater than the impact of the weight savings.
go on a diet .... you can surely loose 10-15 kg and that will make a huge difference.
Possible to cut a bit of the chimney and remove few spacers?
Can't work out why you took the chain off...presumably you know you don't need to break the chain to remove the rear wheel?😄
I sat here saying to my monitor, get TPU tubes! I'm using RideNow (Asian) TPU tubes. They work perfectly well and seem very durable.
Nothing wrong with making one's bike lighter and cleaner, so great job there. But others will also note that the rider's weight is a much larger (he-he) factor. In my best cycling shape I weigh about 160 pounds (72.6 kg). Currently I'm at 173 pounds (78.5 kg). Historically, I can shave off those nearly six kilos in 10 weeks just by getting off this chair and onto my bike for 90 minutes or so six days a week...turning the pedals instead of wrenches.
Do it.
Good job, you could’ve taken the seatpost out and cut that down to do some more weight saving😊
How to save weight for free. Step 1, buy £55 of TPU innertubes.
Expensive aerothan inner tubes are for free? Sorry but stupid video. Those stickers will come off during first washing of the bike. Usless work with cables.
Super interesting and I'll definitely be trying some of these. Thanks.
Thanks for the support!🧡
Take a dump before riding will save you a kilo
Best video yet guys 😎👍🏼….. i do all my bike maintenance at home and always find your videos helpfull keep up the good work
Thanks for the kind support! Back again tonight🧡
Great video, I know there is lots you can do, but, if you remove the red trim piece off the back of the saddle you can cut 10-12g, also, recommend a titanium bolt kit for the stem bolts and the head set bolt should be titanium too, it looks nicer and is a lot lighter and won’t rust.
68kg rider. Drop 250grams nd off a 9kg bike. System Weight goes from 76kg to 75.75kg That is a 0.03% system weight reduction. On climbs you will go 0.03% faster, accelerations will be 0.03% higher. Flat and downhills no improvement.
That's like saying it will only be 20% harder to walk up a hill carrying something that is 20% of your weight.
Go grab a weight and see how true it is.
I was a bit surprised to see the bottle cages going. I know this was only an exercise in weight saving but they are a completely necessary weight to have on any bicycle.
I agree. In addition, you can save a lot of weight by being careful about which bottle cages you choose and which bolts you use. Choose the right bottle cages, bottles and bolts, and you might shave off 100 g with minimal costs.
Whenever I buy a new bike, I do my 3 low-hanging fruits for weight-reduction. 1. I swap the tubes out for 28g TPU tubes; that typically saves 80-100g per tire, 160-200g total. 2. I swap the saddle out for a carbon railed padded Koveclo saddle (~114g Prologo Dimension mimic); depending on the stock saddle, that typically saves about 150g. 3. I swap the quick releases for 50g/pair titanium quick releases, which typically saves about 75g. The total is about 400g off from my automatic 3 go-tos and I get those 3 parts all from Aliexpress only during massive inventory dump sales when I hord dozens of each paying exactly $1.79 per tube, $4.49 per QR set, and $8.09 per saddle, which is about a third their normal price. So the triple weight loss treatment costs me about $18 including tax.
I only chop the bar tape if it's very fat and sometimes, I find that it's because someone put gel pads under the wrap; tossing those typically saves another 160g. I don't usually see Cannondale's incredibly heavy and stupid barstop design used but when I do, I immediately swap them (save them for a build that's too heavy to care about 20 grams) for the 5g plastic ones. I wouldn't take out bottle cage bolts or shorten cables because that's a lot of work or loss of function for like 8 grams of weight loss. It's not worth it to me.
I am absolutely amazed by how similar my own go-to weight reductions would be. However, this exact saddle's plastic base (just by the pressure relief channel) cracked under my not-that-fat 80 kg ass within the first100km ride. Have you ever encountered a failure of such a kind? The seat was super comfy, incredibly light and I am still itching to get another one :)
@@ИванДолгов-ч3ф No, I'm actually 85-87kg. Maybe you're a more aggressive rider; maybe you got a weak saddle or batch. Maybe they improved it little by little but it never happened to me.
I shaved 10kg of my system weight, believe it or not. Took me 6 months, had to eat a lot of vegetables, and I had to give up beer, but it was a cheap upgrade for more speed!
Next: do Crr savings
So stupid to cut the bar tape
Good video 👍
Almost all of my bolts are titanium.. but I only use one bottlecage so I have two extra titanium bolts on the bike.. which I immediately go to remove 😁
bro removed the chain to take out the rear wheel xdd
3:52
and swithching tubes is not quite a "free" soultion if you don't have a spare. And why would you? have??
Cut the seatpost.
Make it single speed 😊
Like I did!
Guaranteed 1 kg off 😅
Greetings from Croatia 😎
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@@Bikespeeds 🙂😁
Shorten the chain by 2 links. Should not be too much, unless you are at the max already or want to run a larger cassette in the future. Also slam that stem (a little at least). You may say it's too aggressive but honestly stretching regularly will solve that and flexibility is extremely important as you get older. Maybe soldering the cable ends instead of caps will save another 1g 🤣
Interested in your dialect, obviously a Southerner but where are you from?
Suffolk 🧡
Ah ha I thought so! When a Norfolk man hears a Suffolk accent it doesn't half confuse him................."He sounds Norfolk but it doesn't sound right?" lol
When your heavy bike is 2 kg lighter than my bike lol
It all adds up
How to lose body weight to make your Bike even lighter. Im talking about kilograms 🤣
in my case, about 3 bikes worth...
go on a diet
Another awesome job. Keep cranking out informative videos; they are quite entertaining! Incredible channel.
Thanks Mark! Back tonight🧡
I’ve seen this one before, if you are new to cycling. TAKE NO NOTICE OF THIS STUPID VIDEO. JUST ENJOY YOUR CYCLING.
Nice to see you using a torque wrench, when tightening the cassette.
That saddle is probably 350g, get a lightweight carbon one for $30 and save 240g.
Your QR axles are easily 65g each, buy titanium ones for $15 and save 100g.
That 105 looking cassette is nearly 350g, buy a lightweight one for $50 and save 140g.
Source: I'm a weightweenie and I flip 50 bikes a year and reduce all their weight for fun.
When you can't see your belt, me thinks you should first look inward for weight savings. Why faff around with 10 grams when you can drop an easy 5 to 10 kg and not miss it 👍
I enjoyed the video but on the thumbnail for the video you had a -500G and in reality the savings was 250 grams albeit mostly because of going to tpu inner tubes. Still the snipping here and snipping there was interesting but you FAILED with your deceitful clickbait advertising. So shame on you and I doubt I will watch any other videos produced for you channel.
I don't want to be rude but the biggest draw back the, biggest flaw and the biggest block in aerodynamics it's the rider himself. Unless you are ultra fit for example like 1.72m-1.75m height and 60-65kg then yes you can start and take a look how to shave off weight from the bike even though it's ultra mega expensive and unless you are planning to win TDF it's not worth it.
My gear is 14Kg 😬. But I'm 8Kg overweight when I started (last year) bike commuting and now I lost 7Kg so I think that also weight saving for free?
Looks like when the cable housing was trimmed, the ferrules were weighed. Surely you replaced those, and they shouldn't be included in the weight savings.
The Schwalbe Lugano Tires use 10 watt per Tire more then an upper tier but not top tier Tubeless tire. Thats 20 Watt at any speed, any gradient, any weight. Total waste of Time to reduce weight before covering basics like rolling resistance and driver position. Just get the propper stuff and dont mess around with changing Barplugs or stickers
I hate tpu tubes. They leak air faster. They can split easily when installing. You cant patch them easily. Nust awful. Go light weight butyl.
Good bait, but it wasn't entirely for free. Most of the gains came from changing the inner tubes, and the new ones, despites being relatively cheap, they had a cost. The other changes are so marginal that don't even matter so much or don't make sense to many people (as not having bottle cages, for example).
If you swap those heavy Schwalbe Lugano's for a pair of Pro One's you will not only save 200 gr but win a lot of comfort and speed!
I think a point you didn't address is that most stock bikes comes with too long cables. Probably because it's just "safer" to have it long rather than short or maybe it's just easier to cut the hoses at the same length in bulk to built different sized bikes in a batch. This could be a not so marginal saving here. Not just the weight, but also the aero. Because the complicity nature of it most people just leave it there while geeking at all the other marginal savings here and there. Though with internal cable routing this is less an issue here but for the older bikes this is one of the lowest hanging fruit out there.
This was lame. More of an advertisement to go to your shop to buy tubes. If you were really serious about dropping weight on this bike I'd start with yourself.
you will have to put a plastic sticker on the head tube to prevent that left shifter cable from rubbing into the paint when turning the handlebars to the right. Outside of that you did an amazing job and the bike looks pristine
I have a laughably heavy commuting bike 🚲. I've already removed 48kg from me and I'm considering losing another 8kg. Even with a bike as heavy as mine, 48kg isn't just a weight saving, it's the equivalent of four bikes at least.
Buy a used carbon bike for 300-400 EUR. Save 2kg.
Clickbait scammer...why lie with 500g? Fu
Overall video was nice but its a scam clickbait
If you were truly serious about saving weight, you would have left off the crimp-on cable ends.
My two large water bottles full weight 4 pounds (1814 grams). And as I ride, that water goes into me. I sweat some of that out but most stays in me.
Stopped watching when you took the bottle cage bolts off. Also upgrading to tpu tubes from latex isn’t free.
I thought you were going to make the bike lighter with no cost? The tubes come at cost. Also, why did you remove the chain to drop out the rear wheel? Unnecessary.
TPU inner tubes are not for free. But otherwise it was a enjoyable video.
Also, get rid of that jimney or buy a bike your size.
I've done all of these. 👍 But, replacing the tubes? Not free. Otherwise pretty accurate 😊
Chop off the seatpost just leave the recommended insertion and leave it sharp according to your height and leg measurement same in the fork leave it as comfortable as possible leaving still a spacer for the future and you can still cut a few grams there as well.
If you have a 500 pound cannondale and you remove 500 grams, you still have a 499 pound bike.
Interesting, but how can you ride seriously with no liquids/ water bottle cages?
Your bike is not heavy you are, loose 8.6 Kg body weight that's a whole bicycle and it is free.
You didn’t include the weight savings of the narrower bars?
Once you put 1 waterbottle on your bike. What you just did is wasting time!
Cut the saddle if its more than 10cm in the frame, Kalloy uno stem (aliexpress special is very light 120ish grams, cheap and my 90 kilos didn't have a problem for years), conti gp5000 are very good and lighter than whatever manufacturer put on, carbon bottle cages, lighter saddle, lighter bars all these upgrade are cheapish and can save a ton of weight. As a big rider i can lose 20kilos but tinkering on the bike makes me happy.
it starts to get a bit silly when a casual rider is looking to save 200g. sticker sheet is not free new inner tubes are not free new bar ends are not free ,deliberately leaving the cables long so you can trim them later does not count,
All good tips but an even better tip is lose 1 lb/month through giving up snacking between meals.
You have to spend money on most of these. E.g. he’s just said getting better inner tubes. Not very free 🤣🤣
Could've saved a bit more if you used superglue on the cable ends instead of the metal caps
Installing $35 inner tubes doesn't seem like free though
Best way is to eat healthy. You’d be surprised how many kg you can shave
I never replace my handlebar tape so that's 20g savings
imagine what could you do if cut right that rear brake housing 9:44 plus No tape, plugs at all
Absolutely nothing of value is included in this video, tks for wasting our time with all the gimmick saving🙄🙄
You forgot the rim tape, you need Rox ultralight rim tape.
90% of the weight he remove were from the tubes, which werent free. Click bait.
Saying it's for free and then buying inner tubes is not free and misleading
Leave that house brick of a phone at home and save another 250gms.
I will try not to say the obvious here. Dislike for clickbait too.
You need to inflate the Aerothans a bit to a ring shape before putting them in
come on, drill out the chain rings, brakes and levers!