the sale isn't close to final yet, huffy, pacific and I believe the company that makes nautilus machines all are fighting for schwinn/GT. it is likely that they will use the schwinn name to sell bikes in places like wal-mart, and don't know waht they will do with GT. If you want to stay under $1000 I would stay with hartails. specialized, gary fisher, jamis, Giant, kona all have nice bikes in this price range.