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Originally Posted by flylock shox

Don't forget to budget about another $400 on top of that for a rack, waterproof panniers, a rain jacket, rain pants, and rain booties - all of which make wet weather commuting a lot more pleasurable.

I probably have more questions about all the acessories than what bike to get. Once I get the bike sorted out I'll be racking your brains about this stuff.

Originally Posted by pylon

I would go with the Sirrus. Carbon fork outweigh the benefits of disk brakes in my opinion.

However, if I could rewind the clock, knowing what I dumped into my commuter with upgrades, I would have got this:

http://www.bowcycle.com/bc12/bicycle...l-size=%2B700c

(The naked aluminum on that bike looks sooooo sick in person and the 105 drivetrain is worth it.)
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That bike does look pretty awesome. Thanks for the suggestion. There's a Cannondale dealer close by so I'm going to check them out tonight.

Originally Posted by Slava

I don't want to discourage you in anyway, and hope this doesn't come across that way! I bike about 30km to my office, but I don't do that daily for a few reasons. One of the major ones is that this takes roughly 1 1/2 hrs each way. Its a lot of time on a bike, and a lot of time each day. I enjoy it, its a great work out and all that (and a really nice way to start your day!). My advice would be to drive partway and kind of build up distance though. If you haven't biked a fair amount and just bang out 3hrs one day you might be sorry the next day!

I'm definitely doing this. I'll probably start about 10k away and gradually build up to the full distance.

Re: Disc brakes. Another advantage the guy told me was disc brakes are less maintenance. He mentioned that the wheel needs to be totally true to avoid rubbing the brake pads, where as the disc brakes won't be affected by a wheel that's slightly out. Does that make sense or am I just being upsold?

Thanks for your help guys.