I met my SO while commuting. We are of somewhat different ages & I passed her nearly every day. One day while we were stopped at a light she asked why I was able to fly by her with the hidden implication of our age difference. I quickly commented on the difference between riding a 17lb road bike & a 28lb mt bike. When we next met up she asked for more information which was the opportunity for our first date to discuss bikes. On our second date I took her bike shopping. That turned into a regular weekend event where we would ride to different bike shops and try out bikes. The upshot of this story is she in now the happy owner of a Litespeed titanium road bike and whishes she had switched much sooner. She now has no trouble keeping up with me now and says that alone makes it more than worth the horrendous price she paid for titanium. She now makes the trip to work in 21 minuets instead of the 34 it used to take and figures she will recover her investment in less than a year from the ten extra minuets she has time to work each day.