Originally Posted by jrhoneOC

Thanks. Im not looking to dump money into this bike. Its a brand new bike and im learning and getting into shape on it. Currently it far exceeds my abilities so I am very happy with it. I was just wondering aside from components what makes a more expensive bike THAT much more expensive. I kept seeing “lightweight” in the literature but when I looked up bike weight they arent significantly lighter. So I was wondering is a few pounds significant? To me its not but again Im a newb.