My bike ride back and forth to the gym is 4.4 miles. Town rides for errands and such are .5 to 2-6 miles tops. And the Cape Cod rail trail is only 22 miles long. This will be my kind of riding reality for a while... and we'll see where that takes me.
If anyone has any experience, I'd love to hear more reports on the DS as well.
Still, the test ride will be the decision maker for me.
8.4 DS - Trek Bicycle
FX - Trek Bicycle /
Trek Verve 3 - Landry's Bicycles
Thanks again for all the responses here and in other forum threads...
Ride Safe!
Eddie
From another recent thread on bike weights, I found the below quote to be very interesting, in comparing the FX range to the DS range.
Originally Posted by
Jarrett2
I'm firmly in the lighter and more road bike-like is faster camp, but I owned both an FX 7.2 and a DS 8.3 and found my DS to be faster. I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I would see consistently faster average speed times over the same course on the heavier DS 8.3.
I ended up trading my FX on a Secteur (which was faster than either) and then finally traded my DS on a Roubaix which is the fastest bike I've owned.