There is something addictive about reducing weight from a bicycle. The marketing industry have got us all completely dancing to their tune, charging hundreds (often thousands) of £'s to shave meagre grams from various parts. It doesn't matter that i'm 90kg. I doesn't matter that if I stopped eating cake I could save the weight far more economically. I'm an addict, and it takes all my willpower not to take a daily bath in a tub full of titanium bolts. So when it came to replacing my XC mountain bike, I was time to unleash my inner weight weenie...
A big weekend of riding with months of preparation and build up. It did not however go according to plan. Find out how slowly a man can cycle up a hill after the jump...