Now to share something positive about this bike, gawd knows she deserves it.

There's a half km stretch of my commute that happens over really really rough bitumen. Dead set, the local council found the roughest bit of road they could and then did the worst chip seal ever job on the stuff ... without flattening it first. It's rough, it's hard and it feels like someone's holding both brakes on while you ride on this stuff. It's a major commuting route and I've watched a lot of riders grimace and fight and struggle on this bit of road - the alternative is to play in the traffic.

Anyways, my Trek520 struggles on this route.
My beloved Europa throws her hands up in horror and bounces and judders and makes the Trek look like a tank but basically hates this stretch.

The Jamis, once you get her up to about 30km/hr, just glides over this. You can feel the surface holding you back and it's a struggle but the springiness of that frame means that all you feel is the surface trying to hold you back. It's an amazing ride ... and the other two are both full steel frames as well.

This IS a good bike. A little large (I reckon I could lose 1cm in frame size to be perfect) but all the indications are that she's a great bike ... if only she'd stop picking on me. Reminds me of my girlfriend actually

Richard