Originally Posted by orcanova
First off, bikes are usually weighed without pedals...nevertheless. that is still a damned light bike...
I saw the saddle and frame size and stem length and knew it was for a woman already. One of my three road bikes has a triple and it has never been a handicap shifting, accelerating, etc.
Your wife must be loving it. As far as saddles go, I am not a woman (I SWEAR!) but I will tell you this...if you spent that much on a road bike for a woman, buy saddles as though they are free, until she finds the one that is right. The saddle is the biggest hindrance for a woman to keep riding, in my experience with women...but once they find the right one, they are good to go...
The pedals are Shimano Dura Ace and I remember that I had the LBS weigh them and they matched Shimano's advertized weight. So just subtract the Dura Ace pedals and you have the weight of the bike sans pedals. I agree that for marketing purposes, it makes no sense for a company to advertize weights with pedals, but when the bike was completed, we hung it on the digital scale. FYI... the frame alone weighs 1050 grams.
The seat is a Terry Butterfly. She has one on the tandem as well and can ride for hours without any seat problems. However, the deal with the LBS is that she can elect to try other saddles for the next few months and swap them out. Her issue was finding a high end bike frame that she liked that fit. The process took several weeks and lots of test rides.
And you are right, she loves the fit and the ride.