I am definitely still in the honeymoon stage - I absolutely love my 2006 Sequoia Elite! (She is sitting in my office right now giving me puppy-dog eyes and asking when we can leave work, actually.)

For what I like to do on a bike, the Sequoia Elite seems to suit me perfectly... but I'm not a very competitive biker - I just like to go for good loooong rides, and while I like to zip merrily along, I don't care about being super-fast or racing or anything like that. I also like the stability - I tested a few of the more performance-oriented bikes and they were very spiffy, but I didn't even want to think about hitting a patch of gravel/sand at the bottom of a hill on one, y'know?

For me, this was a major purchase, so I hope I don't get tired of it in 2 years... (I rode my last bike for 19 years.) Adjustments so far: I changed the stock pedals, which were the one part of the bike I really didn't like, and put on slightly wider tires. I thought I would change the seat, but so far it has been OK, surprizingly enough.

I didn't try a Comp, either, so can't help there.

Happy hunting!!