What bikes do you want to own?

people get too hung up on weight anyway and forget that you can have as much fun on a heavy bike as you can on a light one.
I'd bet that almost everyone on here who owned a mountain bike back in the eighties had so much fun on it despite most of them being fully rigid with pretty crappy gears and heavy rims and tyres.
I have nothing but good memories from riding my first couple of mountain bikes...it was only when things became over complicated and they tried to make riding off road feel as comfortable as riding on it that i started to lose a bit of faith in the bike manufacturers.

I am pretty much the same when it comes to bike weight. I now buy quality, it it happens to be lighter great if not I just gotta pedal a bit harder.