heh, I ride a 26 year old steel touring bike.
What is this weight thing of which you speak?
In all honesty I've considered getting a lighter, more responsive bike. Most likely a Trek Pilot 2.1 (rode my dads, and loved it.) but the truth is I intend to use my bike to ride to work. That means a bag full of clothes, and another bag full of laptop on the back. I also will be pulling my daughter around in a trailer once she's big enough for me to find a helmet that fits her. (She'll be one on fathers day
) Even if I rode a full titanium race bike, with carbon everywhere, and the lightest of all components. I still can't use it for the things I'd like it to do
I'm still tempted to buy that Pilot though
Wonder what the Roadies I pass on my way into work would think when they see it equipped with fenders.