I became more concerned with the weight of my bike when I started riding really long rides. If I'm doing a ride that's going to take me twenty hours to complete and a lighter bike will shave an hour or two off that time - it's important to me.

At the same time I want a bike that I can trust. I just have an inherent distrust of carbon fiber. I know I would always worry that if I took some of these bumpy descents too fast, that something would break. I know I would not allow myself to descend as fast as I do on steel. Nothing anyone could say, would cause to lose that distrust. Right or wrong, my gut says, this could break. So my new bike is going to be steel.

And yes, I've already shed weight off me.

V.