Originally Posted by tlong
I am a stay at home mom, so I can't really ride to work, but I load my 2 and 3yo's up in the trailer and ride evrywhere we can. We go to the playground, friends houses, grocery store (coming soon...yay!) etc by bike nearly every day. I try to take the long way around to put in at least ten miles round trip.
sure that's commuting. you're doing a job that requires you to travel to various locations during the day, and you do it by bike. textbook, if you ask me
Now to the question....the Sedona seems a little clunky.
i've had a bottom-of-line coda for about two months and completely love it. no regrets whatever, except maybe wanting a kick-stand on it - it seems to slither sideways from anything i lean it against. when i was test-riding 'real' bikes, i got shown a lot of comfort/hybrid bikes in the same kind of niche as the ones you seem to be looking at. i found that upright position to be a real deal-breaker in everything - it just felt wrong in all situations and particularly any time there was work to be done. but the coda has been a total joy, and to me it feels very nimble and sure-footed. mind you, that could be partly because i was riding a clunky box-store faux-mtb before then.
fyi, my ride is 9k each way on roads/mups, with grocery-hauling and a little bit of every kind of grade. i'm not exactly the strongest cyclist around, but the gearing on the coda has been fine for me through all of it. it seems to have a lot of range in those 24 gears, compared with my old bike.
oh, and ps in case it's relevant to the feedback: i'm a woman too.