Quote Originally Posted by Dogmama

You say "trails & road." So, you're looking at a hybrid. My advice would be to stay reasonable in terms of price. You may decide that you love the road & want a serious road bike, or ditto the trails. Your hybrid might become your "around the town" bike that you'd outfit with a rack, baskets, etc. (maybe a horn, streamers...OK...just kidding.)
Yea, love the idea of the basket and streamers! LOL!

To clarify, when I said trails and roads, I meant paved trails, rail trails. I have a mountain bike, I can use that. I think that I want a road bike, I'm scared that I won't like skinny tires but I really want something lighter.

Thanks for all the good ideas. I think that I'm not getting any respect from the bike shops. They just want to put me in a nice little comfort bike, it's so much easier for them than to try to fit someone my size.

I think that I am going to wait for awhile. Wait for the 2006's to come out and see if I can find any bikes to test drive. I think that I liked the Sirrus because it is the only bike that is close to what I want. I don't know much about the different gears, but I agree that I need to buy the best bike I can afford.