As new as you can get

[pistol]

Hi, thank you for the welcomes. I'm sorry I didn't give more info before. I'm 29, and while I'm definitely not in the best shape of my life, I'm in fairly good shape, since I do other forms of exercising. I live in Utah, and our winters are not good for riding, so I'm looking for a nice weather bike, probably. I would say the terrain is definitely not flat, there are hills. Also, at this point, I'm not planning to do any mountain biking.

I hear you about getting comfortable before I pull my son in a trailer. That does make sense. We've got a nice, long walking/biking trail near my house that I'll be taking him on with a trailer before I ever go on the road with him.

I'll not be buying a bike at Walmart, if I can help it. Fastdogs, my husband likes guns, and he has no problem paying lots of money for them, even though he actually only uses them a few times a year. I plan to use that as my bike buying angle.

I've been thinking about getting a hybrid. How would that do on longer rides? I know it wouldn't be as fast as a road bike, but I'm not too worried about speed. I know I'm all over the place with what I want, which does make it hard to give me advice.

I was looking at the website for a bike shop near me, at their hybrids, and they had some bikes starting at $269 and then up into the low $300's. Specifically, a Diamondback Kalamar, a Giant Cypress ST, and a Raleigh Detour 3.5. Are those bikes complete crap?