The weight loss challenge!
 

Let us know - on your long distance set up: what is the latest permanent thing you just changed to shave off a few grams/ounces?

Also, if you have just come crawling back, recognizing the mistake of your weight saving attempt: what have you just changed back or added - putting you more or less back to square one or worse?

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I've tossed out my mechanics gloves that I use frequently. At the same time I am conscidering bringing a torque adapter or torque wrench (which people think is a bit mad). Net weight savings will be negative. doh

Since last August I have shed 13 kilograms of my personal weight. I plan to loose another 8-10 kilograms...

If I regret it? Absolutely no! Is it permanent? Hard to tell, hopefully it is....:clap:

I remember a "letter to the editor" of Bike magazine many years ago. The magazine had been going on about the weight of the different sports bikes for some time and how suich and such a bike was better because it was 2.2kg lighter and boy could you feel it. The writer of the letter pointed out that there was far more weight to be saved by the rider eating a few less pies......

I remove pillion pegs as soon as I get a bike home.

Andy

You and me both - not quite as much as you (about 12kg to get down to my target weight) and Covid lockdown lifestyle changes caused a setback or two but I’ve got around 5kg to go. If I’m there by the summer I’ll be happy.

You’re right that keeping it off is almost harder than losing it. It’s tricky to judge.

You must have noticed a huge difference if you’re 13kg lighter.

If you’re that concerned buy a lighter bike and head off clutching just a credit card and a toothbrush. :scooter: When you boil it down that’s all the luggage you need.

Of course - knee pain is almost gone, blood pressure is very much lower/better and trousers that I just barely could zip up/button up with a lot of effort last summer are now lose and a belt is neccesary to keep them up...:cool4:

Pack twice as much money and half as much kit as you think you'll need.

I may add "... and a few less beer" :innocent::thumbup1:


Unfortunately, after a hard day's ride a cold lager is most refreshing bier


To change your bike could save a few kg's. I sold my old Beemer (with a huge HPN fuel tank and bought a F650GS twin, which relieved my travel setup by roundabout 45 kg.

I will never ever sold my unique HPN-Bike! :nono:


Better to buy a second or third bike ... or ... bier

better still.......... buy a mountain bike and keep fit !
( you dont burn many calories off twisting a throttle !! )beer !!!!

or even better buy a proper dirt bike! :) I bicycle and motorcycle off-road, and much prefer the motorcycle for overall fitness FUN - depending on the days ride of course. The bicycle is better for aerobic fitness and legs, but that's it. ALL of me gets a workout on a good dirt bike ride.

Try out a racing bicycle. It´s not only legs, it trains the the full torso because of the different posture compared to a mtb. Also you burn a lot calories through the hardworking circulatory system. Constant cadence is the key for people like me who suffer through no off road area around for a dirtbike.

sorry got to declare i doo ride an E mountain bike ! , but do about 30 miles of road mainly in eco mode , and thats a good workout !
I do own a trail bike , but seldom get a work out on it ! ( just a good rider !! )

But an E-MTB is also a "motor"-cycle :innocent: But I agree, riding in Eco mode AND riding the Alps is quite some exercise.


@Motravel: Unfortunately my Beemer wasn't a real HPN bike, which I wouldn't have sold either. Just the fuel tank (rather barrel) was from HPN. Actually it never was necessary to carry 40 litres of fuel to get to the next petrol station, except once in OZ where the next possibility to fill up was > 400 kms. But a small jerry can would have sufficed....

Feh. There are a lot of ways to get a full-body workout on two wheels. Riding trails under motor power (gas or electric) can certainly be one of them, but if you're not using your whole body on a mountain bike, you're not doing it right. It's not just legs and aerobics.

Besides, I can still walk away after tumbling over the bars on my mountain bike, then getting clobbered by the bike itself flying thru the air and landing on top of me. Try THAT on your DRZ!

Seems so much easier to loose on kg of bike fat than one gram of body fat.

Then again, in both areas I sin in the same way. I commit to loose it, only to find that I fall of the wagon and put it right back on again.

There is one thing to be said on loosing bike fat vs body fat though. Bike fat is static, where as body fat is not. Where it is definitely true that fitness will help a lot, in terms of weight alone, a lighter bike makes for better handling then a lighter rider.

Losing weight on farkles and luggage is valid, irrespective of what type of bike we ride. It seems as though nothing we put in our luggage weighs that much - yet when we put our bikes fully loaded on a scale, one can wonder where all that extra bike fat came from.

One might think that taking a tooth brush in place of a real chain brush, and scavenging for diesel at gas stations instead of bringing a chain cleaner on a can - that it really doesn't matter all that much. But, if you apply that same thinking to everything - it starts to matter