Bike manufacturers have been selling "light weight" forever to the cycling public. Just look at all the catalogues from companies like Peugoet that carefully placed weight of their bikes at very noticable locations so it correlates to "the higher the model, the lighter the bike) It was weird though when the middle level model Super Vitus framed PSVs were easily beating the higher model Reynolds framed Peugeot bikes in the weight races during the 80's.....so I ended up with a PSV.........I guess I've been weenie for all these years!!

Chombi