How I Saved Weight For Free! Making my bike faster overnight! 

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

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.

Easy saving: cut the unused seatpost lenght

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

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

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

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🙂

Here I am with my bike cameras, Garmin computer, and BT speaker and two water bottle cages and water dragging me down.

feels like loosing 500g of bodyweight is less effort 😜

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

Would love to know where I can get free innertubes.

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.

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

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.

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.

you wont go any faster, ffs, if you and the bike weigh lets say 80kg and you remove 250 gms. that means you and the bike now weigh 79,750 kilos, whats wrong with people, you wont go any faster!!!!!!!!!!!! do the sums, get some help

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

I removed the frame and the wheels myself for ultimate weight savings ❤

Pretty pointless. 250g will make zero difference. The watt savings in rolling resistance changing those tubes would be orders of magnitude greater than the impact of the weight savings.

go on a diet .... you can surely loose 10-15 kg and that will make a huge difference.

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

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?😄

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.

Good job, you could’ve taken the seatpost out and cut that down to do some more weight saving😊

How to save weight for free. Step 1, buy £55 of TPU innertubes.

Expensive aerothan inner tubes are for free? Sorry but stupid video. Those stickers will come off during first washing of the bike. Usless work with cables.

Super interesting and I'll definitely be trying some of these. Thanks.

Take a dump before riding will save you a kilo

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Next: do Crr savings

So stupid to cut the bar tape

I shaved 10kg of my system weight, believe it or not. Took me 6 months, had to eat a lot of vegetables, and I had to give up beer, but it was a cheap upgrade for more speed!

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 😁

bro removed the chain to take out the rear wheel xdd 3:52

Cut the seatpost.

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

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

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 🤣

Interested in your dialect, obviously a Southerner but where are you from?

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

It all adds up

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

go on a diet

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

I’ve seen this one before, if you are new to cycling. TAKE NO NOTICE OF THIS STUPID VIDEO. JUST ENJOY YOUR CYCLING.

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

That saddle is probably 350g, get a lightweight carbon one for $30 and save 240g. Your QR axles are easily 65g each, buy titanium ones for $15 and save 100g. That 105 looking cassette is nearly 350g, buy a lightweight one for $50 and save 140g. Source: I'm a weightweenie and I flip 50 bikes a year and reduce all their weight for fun.

When you can't see your belt, me thinks you should first look inward for weight savings. Why faff around with 10 grams when you can drop an easy 5 to 10 kg and not miss it 👍

I enjoyed the video but on the thumbnail for the video you had a -500G and in reality the savings was 250 grams albeit mostly because of going to tpu inner tubes. Still the snipping here and snipping there was interesting but you FAILED with your deceitful clickbait advertising. So shame on you and I doubt I will watch any other videos produced for you channel.

I don't want to be rude but the biggest draw back the, biggest flaw and the biggest block in aerodynamics it's the rider himself. Unless you are ultra fit for example like 1.72m-1.75m height and 60-65kg then yes you can start and take a look how to shave off weight from the bike even though it's ultra mega expensive and unless you are planning to win TDF it's not worth it.

My gear is 14Kg 😬. But I'm 8Kg overweight when I started (last year) bike commuting and now I lost 7Kg so I think that also weight saving for free?

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.

The Schwalbe Lugano Tires use 10 watt per Tire more then an upper tier but not top tier Tubeless tire. Thats 20 Watt at any speed, any gradient, any weight. Total waste of Time to reduce weight before covering basics like rolling resistance and driver position. Just get the propper stuff and dont mess around with changing Barplugs or stickers

I hate tpu tubes. They leak air faster. They can split easily when installing. You cant patch them easily. Nust awful. Go light weight butyl.

Good bait, but it wasn't entirely for free. Most of the gains came from changing the inner tubes, and the new ones, despites being relatively cheap, they had a cost. The other changes are so marginal that don't even matter so much or don't make sense to many people (as not having bottle cages, for example).

Buy a used carbon bike for 300-400 EUR. Save 2kg.

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!

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.

This was lame. More of an advertisement to go to your shop to buy tubes. If you were really serious about dropping weight on this bike I'd start with yourself.

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

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.

Clickbait scammer...why lie with 500g? Fu Overall video was nice but its a scam clickbait

If you were truly serious about saving weight, you would have left off the crimp-on cable ends.

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.

Stopped watching when you took the bottle cage bolts off. Also upgrading to tpu tubes from latex isn’t free.

I thought you were going to make the bike lighter with no cost? The tubes come at cost. Also, why did you remove the chain to drop out the rear wheel? Unnecessary.

TPU inner tubes are not for free. But otherwise it was a enjoyable video. Also, get rid of that jimney or buy a bike your size.

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

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.

If you have a 500 pound cannondale and you remove 500 grams, you still have a 499 pound bike.

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

Your bike is not heavy you are, loose 8.6 Kg body weight that's a whole bicycle and it is free.

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

Once you put 1 waterbottle on your bike. What you just did is wasting time!

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.

it starts to get a bit silly when a casual rider is looking to save 200g. sticker sheet is not free new inner tubes are not free new bar ends are not free ,deliberately leaving the cables long so you can trim them later does not count,

All good tips but an even better tip is lose 1 lb/month through giving up snacking between meals.

You have to spend money on most of these. E.g. he’s just said getting better inner tubes. Not very free 🤣🤣

Could've saved a bit more if you used superglue on the cable ends instead of the metal caps

Installing $35 inner tubes doesn't seem like free though

Best way is to eat healthy. You’d be surprised how many kg you can shave

I never replace my handlebar tape so that's 20g savings

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

Absolutely nothing of value is included in this video, tks for wasting our time with all the gimmick saving🙄🙄

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

90% of the weight he remove were from the tubes, which werent free. Click bait.

Saying it's for free and then buying inner tubes is not free and misleading

Leave that house brick of a phone at home and save another 250gms.

I will try not to say the obvious here. Dislike for clickbait too.

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

come on, drill out the chain rings, brakes and levers!

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