Originally Posted by
Rail
... Yet someone else on the other side of the world or on the next street over is forced to make this same trip by bicycle and wishes he had a machine to do it.
Am I exploring a different question? What equipment/weight would be reasonable to you if the bicycle was the ONLY transportation available to you? Maybe it's the same answer.
Probably different question that most of us are not qualified to answer unless the answerer's only transportation available is bicycle and not by choice in that account in context of what you are asking. I would presume just about everyone who can post here doesn't probably fit the criteria.
Those people who are forced to that situation most likely don't have extra time/money/willingness to spend time on some internet forum relating to bicycle most likely.