Originally Posted by asmallsol

If your bike weighs close to 35lbs, even if you change out your wheelset and components, your frame is still going to weigh a ton, and now you just hung $2000 worth of parts on a bike and it still weighs in over 20lbs. Save your money up and look at buying a mid level bike. You can easily find bikes in the sub 20 lbs range for under $1500