Thanks for all the replies everyone!

To answer a few questions I'm from Bozeman, Montana.

CliffordK -- I am really just looking for a bike that I can take out for the afternoon and feel comfortable on. I'm probably at most going to be riding 60-70 miles in a day but on average 20-30. I'm very much a newb and don't know what to be looking for, every time I see a bike for sale I look it up to increase my bike vocabulary. I generally use those lists as a starting point, but I just found it interesting that those years "best of" models were really hard to find.