So I asked once on the other place and some things have changed.
This weekend I did the responsible thing and rode a bike with my buddies up to the Brewfest Saturday giving us easy parking and piece of mind getting home. I had my friends girlfriend's Cruiser. It had foot brakes and 3 speeds. For hammering around town, it was sweet. I felt like the bear at the circus.
As such, I am re-evaluating what I think I need. Although it would be great to have a cadilac front suspension bike that would get used hard occassionaly, reality is I already have several big dollar hobbies and prefer running for focused exercise.
This has me looking again, because there are lots of trips during the week that I really should make on the bike to take more miles off the truck. The park is almost 20 minutes of walking, or about 5 on the bike. Riding the bike to the pub or the store would be killer, it is almost always nice here.
For a man at 6'5" and 250, looking for around town use and some recreational path riding, I doubt I need to spend big bucks on any sort of suspension. I would like handbrakes and some gears, but I am not sure how many I need. Getting a cruiser makes me leary of hammering out longer trail rides for conditioning if I were so inclined. Having a 24 speed non-suspended bike makes me feel I may be tempted to ride it too hard. I want something that is nice, but not an uber-trail bike.
Trek Clyde and Trek SU200 are striking me now. Advice, opinions?