Bloomington, my little town here, is a pretty small town. Looks like I don't HAVE to go more than 3 miles to get anywhere. I suppose that's not too much of a trek, huh? There IS a lot of nature around...I could see myself wanting to bike on trails and such that are around here; the ones designed for bikes. There's at least one place I like to go pretty frequently that's 6 miles away. I don't think it gets too windy, but I lived in Iowa for the past four years, and Illinois before that =). It's not that hilly either. Just a couple of hills around that I tend to visit. It is Indiana, which means it gets everywhere from bitterly cold to super-hot. Sort of like living on the moon. Because there's no one here =P Weather strikes pretty frequently: plenty of rain in the spring and summer, thank you lake michigan, and a good deal of snow in the winter. But I've got a little bit of time to worry about that.
I rode everything but the Seek 2. Which is silly. I'll go back to the store and ride it before buying one. The upright position is a little off-putting to me, since I'd been riding a mountain bike before, but I could get in to it. It's not bad, just different.
Hey! I just found out that you can zoom in on the Giant bikes if you click on the un-zoomed picture and wait for, like, 5 minutes while it tries to load. You can go ahead and surf the rest of the internet in the mean time. Don't know why it takes so long.
It looks like it has a screw along the neck of the rear fork. Is that the rack mounting hole? I was looking at the Allant, whose picture has a rack on the TREK site, and it looks like it is mounted using a similarly placed screw.
As for physics, I'm not totally sure yet! Just started this year. Some of us have come in with solid interests. I'm thinking of either trying to pursue applications to Neuroscience, or on the other end of the spectrum, nuclear or high energy physics. I want to understand the Strong and Weak forces better. This summer, between studying for the Qualifying exam, I'll be prepping a room to magnetically isolate it. My Prof wants to cover the whole thing in Mu metal. It's gonna cost a couple hundred thousand dollars. I suppose it would be a valuable resource to the Cyclotron. <---Not bike related.