Before rides I take a shit. Saves round 400grams

I do like a bit of weight saving, my biggest problem is the lump of lard on the saddle.

Not sure removing bottle cages is an upgrade.

once you remove the bottlecages, there is no point in riding this bike. you should take hydration more seriously if you want to make your riding at all enjoyable. but you do you i guess

Easy saving: cut the unused seatpost lenght

I'm surprised to see a clickbait title and clickbait thumbnail on this channel. The weight savings wasn't free like it says in your title, obviously, since the bulk of it came from those two new Schwalbe Aerothan inner tubes which sell for £27.99 each on your website (£55.98 [$70.81 USD at the current exchange rate] total, not including whatever taxes and shipping costs may be added to that when someone orders them from your website). As for the thumbnail, the total weight savings was -250 grams, which is half of the "-500G" that you wrote in huge font on the thumbnail.

Was waiting for a flashback to the 80”s when “drillium” was the fad.

No bottle cages. Think of the mass you can now lose as you sweat away with no liquids replenishment. 🙂

Technically that rd cable is too short right now, shimano wants a SMOOOOTH bend. Edit: cant believe bartape saving is that much

Great vid, not sure I’ll go for all the tips for my 11kg gravel/road stealth bomber, but interesting all the same (especially the tubes). FWIW, I’ve lost 12kg of lard since I started taking cycling more seriously again 16 months back. It’s always the rider that’s the heaviest element. Thanks, enjoying the channel and workmanship.

Best video yet guys 😎👍🏼….. i do all my bike maintenance at home and always find your videos helpfull keep up the good work

Another awesome job. Keep cranking out informative videos; they are quite entertaining! Incredible channel.

You could pretty easily get rid of the barrel adjuster for the front derailleur. I ditched mine years ago not for weight weenieing but rather because I couldn't be bothered splicing one in when I was redoing the noodles. I've never missed having one, I just adjust the derailleur once when I install the cable by tweaking the cable's position in and out of the pinch bolt, and it never drifts out of adjustment. Also not to nit-pick but the Schwalbe tubes are around $32 each list price, so $64 is a fair chunk of money and about 10% the price of the whole bike, which is pretty far from free.

Thank you! Glad to see alot of people are interested in this sort of stuff! Cheers!

Those inner tubes are quite expensive may as well swap out those tyres for something like Schwalbe Pro1 for another 100g saving then carbon railed seat and then some Ritchey Logic WCS alloy bars and stem you would probably be under 8kg🙂

Would love to know where I can get free innertubes.

I sat here saying to my monitor, get TPU tubes! I'm using RideNow (Asian) TPU tubes. They work perfectly well and seem very durable. Nothing wrong with making one's bike lighter and cleaner, so great job there. But others will also note that the rider's weight is a much larger (he-he) factor. In my best cycling shape I weigh about 160 pounds (72.6 kg). Currently I'm at 173 pounds (78.5 kg). Historically, I can shave off those nearly six kilos in 10 weeks just by getting off this chair and onto my bike for 90 minutes or so six days a week...turning the pedals instead of wrenches.

I changed over to ride now tubes. 36g and waaaaaay cheaper than a butyl tube

feels like loosing 500g of bodyweight is less effort 😜

Save a bit more by not capping the ends of each cable, use superglue to stop the cable fraying

Why did you take the chain off to remove the back wheel ? 🤔

Possible to cut a bit of the chimney and remove few spacers?

Well done dudes.. great savings.. another great weight saving the wheel skewers 😊 ❤ love my cannondales 😊 great series look forward to more on this one.. Pete 🚴🏻👍

Neat little video, Lee. Thanks for the lesson in saving weight. 😊

Who needs to drink water on a bike anyways. Unheard of...

Nice to see you using a torque wrench, when tightening the cassette.

Great video, I know there is lots you can do, but, if you remove the red trim piece off the back of the saddle you can cut 10-12g, also, recommend a titanium bolt kit for the stem bolts and the head set bolt should be titanium too, it looks nicer and is a lot lighter and won’t rust.

Wow, amazing, so many incrimental savings end up adding up nicely, thanks.

Whenever I buy a new bike, I do my 3 low-hanging fruits for weight-reduction. 1. I swap the tubes out for 28g TPU tubes; that typically saves 80-100g per tire, 160-200g total. 2. I swap the saddle out for a carbon railed padded Koveclo saddle (~114g Prologo Dimension mimic); depending on the stock saddle, that typically saves about 150g. 3. I swap the quick releases for 50g/pair titanium quick releases, which typically saves about 75g. The total is about 400g off from my automatic 3 go-tos and I get those 3 parts all from Aliexpress only during massive inventory dump sales when I hord dozens of each paying exactly $1.79 per tube, $4.49 per QR set, and $8.09 per saddle, which is about a third their normal price. So the triple weight loss treatment costs me about $18 including tax. I only chop the bar tape if it's very fat and sometimes, I find that it's because someone put gel pads under the wrap; tossing those typically saves another 160g. I don't usually see Cannondale's incredibly heavy and stupid barstop design used but when I do, I immediately swap them (save them for a build that's too heavy to care about 20 grams) for the 5g plastic ones. I wouldn't take out bottle cage bolts or shorten cables because that's a lot of work or loss of function for like 8 grams of weight loss. It's not worth it to me.

Great video as always, cheers. Which cable cutters/crimping tool are you using? Is it a park-tool tool?

Yep! Attention to detail is very worthwhile.

saddle looks heavy too, nice video!

Great video sometimes it’s the simple things Keep it up simon😎

Pressed play... Here we go!!

Good video 👍 Almost all of my bolts are titanium.. but I only use one bottlecage so I have two extra titanium bolts on the bike.. which I immediately go to remove 😁

The best advice in this whole video is to thread a nut onto a screw or bolt before cutting it, because it chases the cut end when you unscrew it. This is just a great tip for home mechanics and tinkerers, and took me a while to figure out on my own.

Loved this video guys..... Simple, practical, very cost reasonable.....chapeau! 👏. Enjoy the TDF if you are following 👍. Have a great weekend !🍻

Great video! Maybe do a video where you show off the different tools and stuff you use when restoring a bike. That would be awesome.

Nice work, I've done all that to my Cannondale, except the inner tubes,and it still weighs 9.4 kg.Not a piece of carbon fibre in site .

i like weight saving videos , i hope there will be more videos like this

Very short nylon screws save weight over metal ones especially if you want to perhaps use accessories occasionally for longer events

I was a bit surprised to see the bottle cages going. I know this was only an exercise in weight saving but they are a completely necessary weight to have on any bicycle.

One thing I've heard is that TPU tubes are not recommended for rim brakes due to heat issues. Have you had any problems in that regard? Are there specific TPU tubes that are better rated for that application?

Rolling mass reduction is underestimated - those TPU tubes are a much bigger upgrade than the weight will indicate alone. The time spent on the rest is a waste IMO. Inverting that Stem to get your stack height lower would gain heeps more in aero gains than what trimming cables and bar tape will do for instance.

Nice one Lee

shortened brake and shift cable housings give better performance aand save weight? sweet great website,Sir

Seatpost and fork length cutting could also be a good addition to the weight savings

Cut the saddle if its more than 10cm in the frame, Kalloy uno stem (aliexpress special is very light 120ish grams, cheap and my 90 kilos didn't have a problem for years), conti gp5000 are very good and lighter than whatever manufacturer put on, carbon bottle cages, lighter saddle, lighter bars all these upgrade are cheapish and can save a ton of weight. As a big rider i can lose 20kilos but tinkering on the bike makes me happy.

You didnt cut the seatpost? 😝 i didnt go to TPU yet, Maybe i need to cut some cables and hosing. Will cut short the bartape. Thanks for the tips !! 👍

Great, thank you will check out the site

change that massive silly cassette for an 11-25, and use an alloy ultegra lockring. There's 100g+ saved. That cast iron-railed saddle is about 300g too. Put on an old SLR 135. They are cheap as chips now, because we are told we need saddles with the bollock slot.

When your heavy bike is 2 kg lighter than my bike lol

Chop off the seatpost just leave the recommended insertion and leave it sharp according to your height and leg measurement same in the fork leave it as comfortable as possible leaving still a spacer for the future and you can still cut a few grams there as well.

Omg this is an awesome video. Can you do two more follow up videos. Second one to be replacing as many bolts and nuts as possible with lightweight ones, alloy or titanium. Third video to ride that bike in normal road conditions. Weight it. Then ride in wet conditions and then weight it. Love to see how much savings you can make by keeping your bike clean. Fourth video perhaps to see the same video but having hot wax the chain. How much it would save by having a non stick chain. And maybe we can see the benefit of the Autoglym on how much sticks on the frame!

you will have to put a plastic sticker on the head tube to prevent that left shifter cable from rubbing into the paint when turning the handlebars to the right. Outside of that you did an amazing job and the bike looks pristine

Shorten the chain by 2 links. Should not be too much, unless you are at the max already or want to run a larger cassette in the future. Also slam that stem (a little at least). You may say it's too aggressive but honestly stretching regularly will solve that and flexibility is extremely important as you get older. Maybe soldering the cable ends instead of caps will save another 1g 🤣

imagine what could you do if cut right that rear brake housing 9:44 plus No tape, plugs at all

Seatpin and Saddle can save a lot replacing with lighter ones.

You don't need six disk bolt screws?

Intriguing...do you compete, amatuer or professional, or do you ride for fitness and enjoyment?

Very interesting video!

I wouldn’t want my seat bolt flush tbh. Should have a couple threads poking out.

It all adds up

My two large water bottles full weight 4 pounds (1814 grams). And as I ride, that water goes into me. I sweat some of that out but most stays in me.

Changing the inner tubes saves rotational weight. Good for hill climbs. Everything else gains very little.

TPU tubes should be inflated slightly so they have shape before fitting...saves them getting pinched/punctured....😀

Bonkers but it made me smile! The bike looks neater as a result.

Thats really impressive how you can save all.! I was expecting you to slam the stem and cut some off 😎🇫🇮

68kg rider. Drop 250grams nd off a 9kg bike. System Weight goes from 76kg to 75.75kg That is a 0.03% system weight reduction. On climbs you will go 0.03% faster, accelerations will be 0.03% higher. Flat and downhills no improvement.

Also change the steel screws to titanium.

You didn’t include the weight savings of the narrower bars?

Can't work out why you took the chain off...presumably you know you don't need to break the chain to remove the rear wheel?😄

Tyres next? Maybe save weight and roll faster? Crankset aswell as per the thumbnail and u could have the number starting with a 7 👍

Next: do Crr savings

You could mount 23 mil tyres which saves ~100-150g over the 2 of them.

at the end of the day, it's the rider itself has the real free weight saving with big gains

The black plastic bar end caps look better than the Cannondale ones.

Fun!

Beautiful Oysterquartz btw!

Looks like when the cable housing was trimmed, the ferrules were weighed. Surely you replaced those, and they shouldn't be included in the weight savings.

God I love this channel.

I have a laughably heavy commuting bike 🚲. I've already removed 48kg from me and I'm considering losing another 8kg. Even with a bike as heavy as mine, 48kg isn't just a weight saving, it's the equivalent of four bikes at least.

I've done all of these. 👍 But, replacing the tubes? Not free. Otherwise pretty accurate 😊

You could remove the headset top cap as well.

If you swap those heavy Schwalbe Lugano's for a pair of Pro One's you will not only save 200 gr but win a lot of comfort and speed!

remove the rear brakes and use only the front brakes ?

I think a point you didn't address is that most stock bikes comes with too long cables. Probably because it's just "safer" to have it long rather than short or maybe it's just easier to cut the hoses at the same length in bulk to built different sized bikes in a batch. This could be a not so marginal saving here. Not just the weight, but also the aero. Because the complicity nature of it most people just leave it there while geeking at all the other marginal savings here and there. Though with internal cable routing this is less an issue here but for the older bikes this is one of the lowest hanging fruit out there.

You don’t use a water bottle ?

Interesting, but how can you ride seriously with no liquids/ water bottle cages?

Don't those tubes weigh more with air in 😂

biggest weight saving out of my wallet .buying all those products from your shop ,good advert

You forgot the rim tape, you need Rox ultralight rim tape.

Go 1x! 😝

You need to inflate the Aerothans a bit to a ring shape before putting them in

My road bikes 12kg. That’s light already

2:40 spoke-protector? "dork-disk"!

Arnt there any hills in your area 🤷

How to lose body weight to make your Bike even lighter. Im talking about kilograms 🤣

Must be nice to get all those things that you used for free

Make it single speed 😊 Like I did! Guaranteed 1 kg off 😅 Greetings from Croatia 😎