^^ Same here. By the time I finish losing the last of my "that time that I died" weight I'll be riding 3 or 5 pound bikes. While lighter is nicer, everything but the wheelset is pretty much irrelevant unless you're going up a hill... which, in Virginia, he may be I suppose. It may be easier to convince him that he doesn't really NEED the lightest bike there is. I still don't understand why people don't "train" on a 50 pound Schwinn.