Touring Bike Recommendation

[JaneE]

Gotta put a good word in for a Surly Long Haul Trucker. Perfect for commuting and touring...The LHT can handle it all.
I've done one, kinda tour with the LHT pulling a fully load BOB trailer too. It and I did great. Can't wait for our next tour the end of the month. bikerHen

This is what I love to hear!

DH and I have two LHTs on order from our local shop. Should be getting them this week. Yippee!! We're anxious to do some tour-camping (we're old hands at camping...it's the *touring* part that's new and exciting ).

We did lots of on-line research on what was out there; none of our LBSs actually stock any touring bikes, unfortunately. We learned that the Trek 520 is on backorder until SEPTEMBER?? Seemed odd that they wouldn't have any to ship during the main touring season but what do I know? If money was no object we'd definitely be going for Co-Motion Americanos with custom paint jobs. Mouth-watering! Since money IS an object, however, we decided that a pair of Surly LHTs would be a great choice and our favorite bike tech helped us immeasurably in determining what size we needed, etc.

Now we're in the process of gearing up and at the moment are trying to decide on panniers. There's certainly never any shortage of ways to spend money, is there? lol!

Anyway, good luck, KatfromCal. Hope you do some great touring!

Jane