It's funny how insignificant conversations that you have with other cyclist all of a sudden appear on BF as topics. A week or so ago, I was getting my bike out of the truck and the guy parked next to me made the comment that he liked the color scheme of my bike (red, black and brushed aluminum). Since I have an aluminum frame, I'm not too concerned with a gram or two when it comes to the cages. He also commented on how perfect a match my red and black painted, aluminum cages, that I got from my LBS, are to the paint color. Then he tells me he rather have CF cages on his CF bike because of the weight factor and proceeds to put aluminum thermal bottles in the cages that certainly make up the difference in weight. Go figure....