Originally Posted by rapidcarbon
I'd go with C'dale instead of Trek.
Secound that
I ride a old cdale t400 from 1987 (see link in sig) and i love the bike. Ive had it sence july 99 and road it for 3 years before taking a fast food job that left my knees hurting to the point of where i just wanted to pop a couple pain pills and sleep. Started riding again this year. The 3 full season i road it i had a comp and i put well over 4k miles a year on the bike this year by my estimate im just going to break 1200 more miles. The bike was ridden alot prior to me owning it at least as many miles as i put on it say say 15 to 24k miles. Other than the paint job the frame is perfect forks could use replaced (its a touring bike so has places for a front rack on the forks and those are rusted pretty bad). Bearings bottom bracket and head stock are original and also still perfect.
Ive not owned any treks but they just seem to be alot of hype to me. I like the looks of cdales more than that of treks.