Quote Originally Posted by CA_in_NC View Post
No advice on Disk brakes (I'm just starting to be curious about them myself), but was wondering what model you're looking at?? If I wanted a trek (from your previous thread) commuter bike, I'd be looking long at hard at the 520 (I have one) and the Portland (I think is a really cool bike).
Let's say those two are out of my price range by a lot.

The bike I had was a 7100 fx from 2004, which is about half the price of the 520 or Portland.

I was looking at the Valencia and at another one that was tagged "Soho" but it's not like the Soho on the web site (maybe because it's last year's, I don't know).

I have been lusting for a 520 for a long time, but I can't justify buying that right now. Especially not knowing what kind of job I will have next year.