Friday, August 15th, 2008
Cutting the Fat Part I - Time for a (bike) diet?
From: Cyclocross Magazine
This is Part I of a three-part bike diet series by weight weenie Jeremy Burlingame and was published in our premier issue of Cyclocross Magazine. Part II was published in Issue 2, and Part III was published online in July ‘08.
Is Your Bike This Fat? photo by Radcarper on flickr. If there was ever a good reason to be fanatical about shedding pounds off of your bike, it has got to be the sport of cyclocross. With the sport’s repeated bike lifting and shouldering, as well as its constant accelerations, “needing” a lighter bike is easily justified…everyone wants to go faster. The thoughts of winning your local cyclocross race, districts, or heck, even just so you’re not last place in the C race might be driving you. You might not be as obsessed with a lightweight cyclocross bike as I am (yet), but hopefully this column will demonstrate that it’s not hard to lighten your bike. In this issue, I’ll focus on three steps to shed a few pounds off your rig.
Read the full article at Cyclocross Magazine
-DSheek
Thanks to the guys at CX Mag for keeping it fun…
