I own a Riv Romulus. Steel. It is a great road-eating cruiser for long, paced rides and it tracks like Gary Diego on the scent of cheap perfume. I especially like its descending stability. Damped as much by its geometry as its construction, yet I can draft in our local grupetto w/o anxiety-- although it is no racing bike. Its neither light nor heavy (relative terms), but then people were racing the Tour on bikes of this weight not many years ago...as well as trekking over mountains, etc.

Still..........I plan on buying some iteration of carbon next season just because.........because I'm curious, beaten down by hype, and have noted all the many recommends here at BF.

LOL....I would also like to buy a Rans Velocity 'bent which I tried while visiting a friend.

So many bikes, so little time.