thanks so much for all the help, both of you. I am supposed to pick up the bike this evening and they even called again to try and push the TRP brakes on me! Ah! They were supposed to just switch my brake pads to the koolstop salmon and change the handlebar. I will try the kool stop for sometime and see if its problematic (I assume it won't be) but if so, I can buy those brakes there...