Buy the Winsor-- it's a qualty touring bike. Yeah, folks will tell you the chainstays are a inch shorter than the Surly LHT, yeah folks will tell you it has a road crankset on it, yeah, Winsor isn't the bike of choice for cool cyclists......but that's a hell of a bike for $600. I could tour with it right out of the box. Hell, strap a sleeping bag to the rear rack, toss some peanut better sandwiches in a backpack and hit the road already!

You are going to have to tear the bike down and jube and adjust everything-- as with any bike Bikes Direct sells. If you're not able to do that, well, it's not a good deal.