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hippy
Kimmo
Who's pretending that? All I said was that it seems stupid to put weight higher when you could put it lower. And that your bike feels lighter with a lower centre of gravity. Handling was not mentioned.
If your bike is under six and half kilos, and you put the wheels in a groove and rock the bike from side to side with your hand on the top tube, it's not implausible that you could actually tell the difference between 50-odd grams being in the seat post or above the BB.
This sort of improvement, with the help of other such improvements (lighter seat, stem, bar?), is guaranteed to make your bike feel more fun.
If you have to argue with that, then pff