Quote Originally Posted by jjkkee View Post
I am shopping for a new lightweight hybrid bike. Mine is about 30 pounds and hard to lift up on my car bike rack. I would like to find something under 24 pounds but do not want a lightweight road bike. Any thoughts?
You're not alone! Betty also wanted a lighter bike so she could put it on her car rack. Betty's custom "hybrid" bike weighs just 23 pounds.

From http://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/betty.htm :

"This is Betty. She's 78 years old and loves to ride. This October (2000) she and a friend are taking an Elderhostel tour of Wisconsin on their bikes. She can't lift her leg as high as she used to, and she had trouble stepping over the frame to get on and off her old bike. Even the frames on girl's bikes are too high for her. She didn't want to stop riding just because of that. She also wished her bike weighed less. Not for performance, but to make it easier for her to lift the bike onto her car's trunk rack when she takes it out on the weekends. To solve these two problems I built her a custom bike with much lower step through height and much lighter weight than her old bike. Betty's bike is almost two years old now. She estimates it's got about 2000 miles on it, since she hasn't been putting as many miles in recently as she used to."

There are photos at the link above.

Maybe try a bike shop that has a scale and just weigh bikes to compare?