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Old July 24th 03, 12:46 PM
RJRider
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Default HYBRIDS: Gary Fisher / Trek / Cannondale - Your Opinions Please

I own an older Trek Hybrid, a 730. I like the bike very much. I do about 16
miles a day on it. Nice, well-made bike.

RJ
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Old July 29th 03, 10:33 AM
Dan Birchall
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Default HYBRIDS: Gary Fisher / Trek / Cannondale - Your Opinions Please

(Matt) wrote:
Hi everyone, and thanks for the several posts back. I appreciate your
inputs.
Unfortunately, I was hoping for someone who actually owned one or more of
the below three models, especially the Cannondale or Gary Fisher, as I am
leading towards one of these two.


Gary Fisher Utopia ~$620 @ my local bike store
Trek 7300 ~$500 @ my local bike store
Cannondale Adventure 400 ~$500 @ my local bike store


The closest I can get, Matt, is a 1997 Cannondale H300 hybrid I bought
my wife. They keep changing the names, but at that time, it was the
entry-level hybrid from Cannondale, and it looks like the Adventure 400
is the current holder of that title. SO... hmmm. I know hers was pretty
handy and reasonably capable - we lived in an old town and she had a
garden at a friend's farm several miles away, so we'd ride out there on
paved roads, then go on dirt roads and offroad at the farm to the garden.

Hers was 21-speed, of course everything has gone 8-speed in the back now,
so you'd get 24-speed. I'm pretty sure hers has a CAAD1 frame; they've
stopped calling a lot of things CAAD now, hybrid frames included. I'm
not sure whether it's the same frame.

The riding position on hers is pretty upright; we stuck a rack on the
back (heavy-duty with 3 supports, had to have the shop grind down the
curved end of one support due to the size of the seatstay tubes) and a
child seat.

I have to get her a new inner tube sometime... I was the last one to
ride it and now it's got a flat. (But my '98 XR800 cyclocross doesn't
have a flat, so... I lack motivation to go to the store.

I hope maybe this is a little helpful. Oh, and some other pointers.
We actually bought hers in the spring of '98 - the dealer still had a
couple of "last year's model" boxed up in their back room, and were
pretty eager to build them up and get rid of them... I think it was
listing for $460+ and we got it for something like $360 plus tax due
to it being old.

We're nearing the end of summer now, and they'll be coming out with
the 2004 models soon (just like cars so you may find that your local
stores are eager to get rid of their 2003's. And if one of them has a
2002 still gathering dust, you might score a really good price.

-Dan

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