Help me choose

[Roadtrip]

Thanks for the feedback!! I'm definatly leaning toward selling and paying off the MD bills. My friend who caused the crash that day has agreed to pay half the expense, but now that the bills are coming in, I'm a little skeptical I'll recieve that, but IF I were... Then I could consider the new bike.

At this point I wasn't really thinking doing actual cyclocross racing for all TE reasons mentioned here, but a bike that I could take on unimproved surfaces, like a TOW path or crushed gravel, one I don't really think my Ruby is suitable for. Hybrid could do it with the right tires, but I'm loosing the road position, plus this XO2 is indeed a good price and seller might be interested in a trade, possibly.

Ps. Yes to the skinny "city" tires.. I put some Conti tires that are 42mm wide instead on the 2.25" knobbies that came on the bike.

Shannon