Quote Originally Posted by rcolli
Hum, interesting - I'm planning to put a "comfort" bike on layaway. I'm using a friends bike right now. What is the difference? What is the advantage / disadvantage to a comfort bike vs. a....... what type would be the opposite? Where do I learn all this stuff?Renee
a "discomfort bike?"

the comfort bikes are usually designed so that we ride more upright, compared to the competitive road bikes, for example. I think that the idea is that when you're leaning forward, you have to kink your neck to see where you're going, among other things that maybe make it harder for us to get back on bikes after many years of -- in my case -- slothitude.

I've about decided that the comfort bike is a marketing trick: got me hooked, now I want to buy another bike and go like "the big kids"!!!!!

Karen in Boise