My Specialized Sirrus weighs about 28 lbs including the fenders, rack, headlight but NOT the battery (I can't have it and a water bottle since right now I only have one bottle cage - so the battery was in the backpack, though I didn't expect to need it that day), a full water bottle, computer, bell, cable lock and small seat bag. She was intended as a commuter; I'd like to add bar ends, a frame pump and fender extensions/mud flaps on top of all the crap that I've already loaded onto her.

Well I'll be darned... maybe that wierd "flat bar road bike" designation really does apply. I don't really think of her as a road bike, though, and not just because she doesn't havedrop bars or 23x700c tires (she's got 28's, which is beefy enough for the rough pavement or occasional brick roads you run across here), but because she's better suited to the city than the Sterling CitySport hybrid I had back in the day. That was a great bike - I definitely had the fanciest bike at Sunset Elementary School - but like the weights you all are mentioning now, it weighed in at significantly more than 30 pounds.