I just wanted to share the experience I had on my last long trip on this bike. In 1998, I rode this bike from San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas México (bordering with Guatemala) to Texas and then California (San Francisco). The trip took two weeks, it was leisure and all I can say now is that despite a couple of minor electrical problems, the bike was as true as any bike can be, I think. And so, not that it is worth much in terms of trade in value, but regardless, I will never trade her in. Alejandro Gómez Palma