While not 10 pounds, that thing is deffinitely worth $60. The Five-Twelve is really light for an 80's steel road bike. The frame is triple butted cro-mo and the lugs are nice. I have a slightly newer one with the triathalon decals that has frighteningly steep geometry (tighter than my Soma Rush) and handles beautifully. If you used light track parts I bet that thing would convert to between 15-18lbs.

...but it has phil wood hubs.

meh. low flange. must've been REALLY trying to cut weight.

Well I guess the way to go would have been to use Campy low flange which weigh in at about 488 grams a pair, whereas the Phils weigh about 625g a pair. He could have saved a whopping 137 grams! That works out to almost 1/3 of a pound!(Boy does that seem silly. Why do people really care about this crap?)

While looking into this I noticed that the carbon Suzue hub is not as light as you might think. They weigh 574 grams a pair.

The first posting in this thread says the bike weighs 10lbs. He must have put wrong weight on it. The Ebay ad says 20lbs so the seller may be correct. I think the bike is a nice bike to convert to fixed.

remember your significant figures, lad! 6.8 kg is 15.0 lbs. if the official weight limit is reported as 6.80 kg, then 14.99 lb is okay.

you are correct that a good analytical balance can weight a 15 lb object to the nearest 0.01 lb, an accuracy of +- 0.067%. it might be tricky to get a bicycle on one of them, however.

Yeah, the auction has been edited and restarted... When I looked yesterday, it had 3 days to run and said 10 pounds... not it's at 6 days and says 20.

mmm... i wish i was a roadie. that's hot.

this, i mean.