Last issue my esteemed colleague, James Spender, penned an opinion piece entitled ‘Weight matters’ (you can read it by going to cyclist.co.uk/weightmatters). And, of course, he’s right. Weight matters a lot if, say, you are deciding who should go at the top of a human pyramid. But when it comes to bicycles, weight doesn’t matter nearly as much as we think it does.
I’m not suggesting it is irrelevant – plainly a one-tonne bicycle would be a nightmare to ride compared to a 10kg bicycle – but
