Originally Posted by
basscadet
Good advice - and I'm thinking it is hard for me to justify the extra $1100 for the SLX frame for 300 grams. This is assuming, of course, that there aren't other benefits to the SLX frame (comfort, etc) over the SL frame.
If you live in flatland, grams, even almost a full pounds worth of them, are 100% irrelevant, and you should (probably) be looking at a Venge and not a Tarmac. Weight only matters going uphill or maybe racing and even then only going uphill. Aero matters everywhere else, including going downhill. Of course aero also kinda depends on riding position, and bolt upright is more of a casual riding position than a performance minded one.