YABT: Help me pick a bicycle!

[ISAslot]

I commute to work by bike, 8 miles round trip. Occasionally, I go for longer rides on rail trails ~40 miles round trip. I need a bike that is strong, reliable, and not too heavy- under 33 lbs. My current bike is 40+ lbs!

Here are some of the bikes I'm looking at:

Cannondale Road Warrior 800
Jamis Coda Comp
Trek Hybrid 7500
Specialized Sirrus Comp
And the bike my LBS introduced to me:
Scott Sportster P3

Any others I should look at? What's the best deal for the $ out of these? Anything else I should consider?

 

[preslove]

Bike Commuting FTW!

edit: you should edit the title to say that it's a bike and not a car.

 

[deftron]

33 lbs is heavy..

Get something like 24 - 26


How much do you weigh?

 

[deftron]

Cafe Noir

 

[jagec]

Hybrid bicycle? How does that work? Muscle power with battery backup?

 

[ISAslot]

I weigh ~165 at the moment.

 

[ISAslot]

Originally posted by: deftron
Cafe Noir

Interesting...

This bike has a high suggested price and that kinda makes me wary. The components seem to be the same as the Jamis Coda Comp (unless i'm missing something) which is ~$800 suggested price. Are they inflating the suggested price so that dealers can discount it a lot to make it look like a 'great deal'?

Right now I'm leaning toward ordering the Jamis Coda Comp at my local bike shop.

 

[deftron]

If you can get teh Jamis for under $800
I'd definitely go with that