...like I said in my previous post, its a win - win situation, either way you'll get a great bike. As to the triple vs double, there's a thread here on Bike Forums that has quite a number of folks praising the virtues of the triple and pointing out that the doubles are really designed more for the hard core road bike aficionados in their never ending quest to pare down weight. I had a double crankset for years on my old road bikes, going back to when they called them 10 speeds, which moved up to 12 and then 18. With the advent of the Mountain Bike and the need to climb the only way to obtain more gearing was to add another front crank, there's a reason they came out with the triples and its not just cuz they look cool and you can brag about your bike having umpteen gazillion speeds...