Why do road bikes have clip ons?

[noggythenog]

I dropped my yolks & scraped my bellypan.........& raised them back again :lol




So a lighter bike or a smaller lighter bike........it can counter the ill effects of not having "bolt ons"    then can it because the comparative weight of the rider & the bike means that it is more planted at the front on corners without fancy bolt ons can it?


But as a bike gets heavier & carries more weight into a corner then it becomes more important for the rider to be heavier to componsate because you want that corner weight going down & not forward & into a hedge & unless you're on the pies like me then crouching or bolt ons are the way of adding weight......is that correct???