sspomer wrote:
assegai 29er dh casing weight from our test last year. not sure if breaker+ is more or less. it all adds up but unless a really pedally track or tight/twisty, would these weights be bad? stability in spades, right?
LTrumpore wrote:
Maybe if there were a track that required constant accelerations the added weight might be detrimental, but that doesn't really describe a modern DH track. The same could be said about 29 inch wheels, but the fact that almost everyone has made the move to the bigger wheels suggests more of a premium on maintaining and gaining speed, and a heavy tire while being more difficult to accelerate is also going to hold that momentum once up to pace (much like a 29 inch wheel). I believe it was Graves who mentioned this at Worlds in South Africa a few years back when asked why he was running DH tires when so many other riders were chancing it with trail casings, on a track with few slow speed accelerations he felt the heavier tires actually helped.
That said, I think most casual observers might be shocked at just how heavy both World Cup DH and EWS enduro bikes are compared to the stock versions, and how little the racers are concerned about it. Bike weight just doesn't seem to be a metric that greatly impacts race performance nearly as much as it does sales.
most bikes now a days come specked with lighter parts and tires.
My own bike witch is a yt capra 29 cf pro came with single ply tires wish give vague cornering feeling with load or poor flat resistance, 28 spoke wheels wish bend an touch the frame and once more give vague corner feeling , and don't ride at the speed that those guy's in DH or ews ride, once a put a proper wheel-set and tires que bike weighted 1kg more, and i am running DD tipe of tires, would be like 400g more if it was dh front and rear.
saying that a trek session xl weights 15.36kg says nothing, as it's a stock bike, if you guy and weight a xl session from TFR it will probably weight more as if you go and wight a stock v10 it will probably weight less
