Swings and roundabouts

What you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts.
- Gertrude Lawrence, "A Star Danced"

I fitted a new seatpost and seatpost clamp last week. As well as looking frankly excellent, they gave me a weight saving of about 85g. Not much, you might say, but then the old seatpost was carbon, so I wasn't expecting too much ... although 85g is nearly two KitKats, so not too shabby.

However, last week I also replaced my quite worn and suddenly very puncture-prone Fusion 5 Kevlar Pro Tech tyres with a pair of folding Continental Gatorskins... and they added 70g.

Gah...

Week 75 metrics

31st May - 6th June

• Total distance: 101.79mi
• Total elevation: 2,462ft
• Longest ride: 45.43mi
• Time in saddle: 7h 05m

This was supposed to be 65 miles and 1,300ft more, but technical problems (three punctures and a broken tyre lever within 45 miles) put paid to yesterday's 104 mile sportive just shy of the half-way mark. Gutted. Strava's gear list functionality tells me the tyre that fell prone to all three punctures (a Fusion 5 Kevlar Pro Tech on the front wheel) has done 1,428.5 miles, so I'm hoping that's the problem. I'll be putting some Continental Gatorskins on this week, front and back; I had hoped to save them until nearer LEJOG but I can't be doing with three punctures every weekend....