Originally Posted by ahsposo

May I offer a bit of posting advice?

To save us the time of copying and pasting your bike choices into a google box providing links (I'll bet you've been to Trek and Specialized sites) to have a quick peek at what you are looking at you could provide them in your post.

http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes...al_sport/neko/

http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes...x/7_2_fx_wsd/#

http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bik...se/ariel/ariel

I'm not a big fan of front suspension for anything but rough trail riding, personally.

Of these bikes the FX 7.2 would be my choice, easily.