Showing posts with label seatpost clamp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seatpost clamp. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 June 2021

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...