To explain myself better, I'm looking at Specialized partly because it's one of the few brands where I get official distributors offering a 2 year theft insurance, which in light of recent events, is a huge plus for me.

Actually today I had a bunch of bike shop dealers offering me to assemble a bike from scratch, but there's no insurance for builds, unless I pay for that separately. The MTB models I'm interested in (basically, an all-black frame) are sold out right now, but I was assured a new batch of bikes will arrive in a week or so.


^ I saw this Allez for just about $1000 and fell in love with it <3, I may get it as a secondary (road only) bike for the weekends (to make my theft revenge complete haha).

Or maybe not, I'm pretty freaked out about getting on a flashy bike right now unfortunately.
As I've been talking with people about my stolen bike these past days, I've been told more than a share of theft 'horror stories'


*Thanks again for the suggestion on the Crosstrail. I saw it today in person, and even though the price was somewhat low, tbh it didn't do much for me; I'm still going to have to keep looking and thinking about it though.