Originally Posted by
cyclinfool
Tom - we were just discussion this in another thread, here we go again, cheap no-name brakes & levers on a cheap bike. It may be OK for a $700 bike but in general it is throwing good money after bad. Spend a little more and get some decent components.
I agree with you about some uprading, but when we started looking at the crosstrail we were initiall looking at the 450 dollar base model, we then looked at the 600 dollar next up model and decided we could upgrade to the 720 dollar model, In your response you act as if money is not an object to some most people, The next leve up in the cross trail is 1100 dollars and we are buying 2 at the same time. We are talking about 800 dollars more here, I know I do not have 800 to throw at something when I think from most of the opinions here we should be getting a fairly decent bike.