Whoa, twilight zone...I too own a (beloved) pair of Horns. I also just bought a bike, a Trek multitrack 7300. I don't know how that compares to the model you're looking at, but it was about $420 at an awesome local bike shop. I've had it about 3 weeks and I love it so far, I've ridden about 5 days a week since. I ride a mix of some roads and some more path-like trails (not totally unpaved, but not cement paved, hard to describe). The hybrid style seems like a good fit, on the trails people with true road bikes seem a little unstable on some passages, and on roads obviously something like a true mountain bike would be cumbersome.