I've been looking for a mountain bike for sometime and still haven't made up my mind on which bike to buy, though I have narrowed my search to just a few. One of the annoyning things I've encountered from searching the web sites of bike manufacturers and retailers is that many refuse to publish a bike weight. REI for example often lists weight as unavailable. How can weight be unavailable? Put the bike on a scale and then publish what the scale says. Whats the big deal? However much weight may be unimportant to some cyclists , I'd like to know what the bike weighs. Weight is certainly more a consideration for me than the various frame angles that manufacturers are fond of publishing in the various diagrams they provide on their sites along with lots of other technical info that I'm not interested in. In fact, next to price, weight strikes me as very important. If two bikes cost around the same price but one is two pounds lighter, I'd like to know that. In the long run it may not matter, but I'd like to know. When a manufacturer offers a particular bike for sale and shows a picture of it and and gives all the specs, weigh the thing and tell me what the weight is. This can't be that difficult to do.