Originally Posted by
Not2bdfeated
my wife works at Sportchek and thus I get everything from there at cost. They don’t have any road bikes and my issue is that being off work for 14 months makes it hard to spend $$ on a bike at all, let alone a road bike from somewhere else. ... the other aspect is that I LOVE riding the forest trails we have here l
Ah. Then by all means, carry on. I concur with the others that the GTs are the better bikes. I'd vastly prefer the brakes and fork on the Avalanche, and 9-speeed over 8.
The upcharge is worth it, IMO. Buy once, cry once.