Oh, this is the best photo I've seen of the 2013 El Mariachi 3, yet:


The more I look at it, the more I love it...and the less enamored I am with the Cannondale Tango SL 29er. It really looks too much like a cheap Y-framed Wal-Mart kids' bike, unfortunately. Even my DH seems to be encouraging the Salsa over the Cdale, even though it would likely cost us a couple hundred more. And I've been riding a friend's too-small-for-me Salsa Ala Carte and can't get over how smooth the steel feels, even riding on the paved rail trail to get to some singletrack 4ish miles from our house. I always assumed that riding knobby tires on asphalt was buzzy regardless of the bike. Now I feel that the buzzy has a lot to do with the aluminum frames I've ridden.