My wife bought me a subscription to Bicycling magazine as a gift. So I was reading it last night and found some recommendations for road bikes of different types, racing, recreational, touring. Anyway, the cheapest one was an aluminum framed Trek recreational one going for $700. It weighed 23.5 pounds.
I'm pretty sure my current favorite ride, a 1983 SR, weights at least 2 pound less than that. I traded a nice pair of black and yellow vintage California license plates for it. They were worth about $100 on ebay.
I guess that makes me a cheapskate, but I'm not a CEO or an investment banker, so...
