Road Cycling“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” -- Ernest Hemingway
Let me get this straight - you are willing to pay ridiculous amounts to buy fancy parts for your bike in an effort to get it into the 15lb range, but you are not willing to spend money on clothing that can affect your comfort while riding - Do I have that right?
Actually you can get it below 15lbs while spending less than wholesale cost if you know how to shop. Im the same way I but actually i would say even cheaper. I wont pay more than 40 for bibs and 30 for jesreys. Shoes i usually will only spend 50-60. Now with that said I have a set of carbon fiber road and a set of carbon fiber mountain shoes, all name brand bibs and 4 fox jerseys. A 15lb kestrel rt1000 which i may have $2300 total with garmin edge 800.
One caveat is that getting all this stuff is a hobby unto it self