Thanks for the recommendations, I would really like to steer him towards a Trek, I just didn't come across any at either of the 2 shops. I'm going to check out the other town, in the other direction. I was looking on Trek's site and they have a Pedal forward model called the
Pure. If he is sold on pedal forward than maybe that the model to go to. I've had a good 16 years on my Trek, and recently rebuilt it just to hang out to it for another 16 years