Thanks again guys. I'll have to check out those surly frames.

I'll be riding to and from work daily as well as some other shorter trips. I anticipate keeping my MTB as a quicky errand, beater, take it to bars and lock it up bike. Hell it only cost me $150 to begin with. The bike will be kept indoors both at my work site as well as at home. I doubt I'll do too much where it's locked up some place. Most of the time, I don't even ride with a lock since I'm just going to/from work/home.

I'd like to spend somwhere between $800 max and $600 for the bike, and honestly I'd prefer it to be used (but not damaged). I've been looking on craigslist.org for the last week or so I've been in San Francisco (live in ATL). Perhaps this weekend I'll cruise to some bike shops to take a test ride on some bikes. It's been years since I rode a drop handlebar bike, but I think I'm up for it.