I was at Urbane picking up something on the weekend and a customer was there showing off his Giant carbon fibre mountain bike that is set up for city riding (no suspension) and bragging about how light it was. He was saying how he had two road bikes each under 13 pounds.
He also only used those weird pedals that were on CL a week ago, that look like just the axl.
It made me think that for the money he spent taking his bikes from 16 pounds to 13 pounds he could have lost ten pounds on his body and been way better off.
"well my seat is only 354 grams, and I don't want XTR on this any more because if you go with SRAM (or something) you can save four grams".