Yeah, no kidding! $2500 would put me into my lustworthy Gary Fisher Sugar Race with full XT components, Fox Float rear and Sid Team front shock with disc brakes! I've heard that bikes only downfall is it doesn't like being behind other bikes.

I'm getting a road bike in October because I'm waiting for the LBS to sell their rentals for the year. I figure $600 for a Bianchi ain't bad, and of all the rental bikes, they're probably the least abused.

Have you considered that at all? I know, it's your primary bike so you're probably not as jazzed about used. It would be like asking me to buy my beloved Big Sur from the rental fleet. Wait, she was too cool to run with the rental fleet. Dunno mang, road bikes serve one purpose for be, building endurance. Don't need to know about them, just need one to spin my legs.

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-smurf