Selecting a Bike

Roger Zoul wrote:

Why do you want a comfort bike but yet want to hop curbs or ride dirt paths?

Consider a recumbent bike and ride centuries on the road! Put some 1.5-inch
tires on a LWB like this one:
http://www.ransbikes.com/SXP07.htm
And you'll be in comfort all day...

The RANS Stratus frame is stiff enough torsionally for power transfer
and handling, but quite vertically compliant. Randy and John Schlitter
got the Stratus frame right from the start 3 decades ago.

--
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
"People who had no mercy will find none." - Anon.