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Think I remember that bike. Had the hub bearing seals removed and only used half the number of rotor bolts?
Edit - yeah, that's the one
Steve’s mechanic, Rick ‘Ricky Bobby’ Clarkson, went to town on the DT Swiss EX1750 wheels, replacing the spokes, stripping the rims and hubs of paint, swapping grease for light oil and leaving out all the seals and dust shields, to reduce friction. They were so much faster that Steve had to change entry speeds and braking points to compensate!
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No, he saved weight on the unsprung mass, that's smart. If anything, he should have given the frame an extra coat of paint to make it weigh more.
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Steve Peat famously had his rims polished to save weight when he won his World title by 0.05s.
Should he have actually painted them with lead paint to have won by more?