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@Smallfurry
Meh.
All this lack of weight, and bike stiffness gumbo, is about feeling fast. Most of the energy lost riding a heavy bike up a hill, or flexing a chainstay. Is returned, either whe you desend the other side of the hill, or the chainstay flex's back.
So yes, tests give similar time for wildly different bikes. But I dont particularly want to get to work early anyway. I do like to feel fast though.