New road bike decisions

dimmockg

Green light for a new road bike

Curretly riding a cube agree gtc from 2012 - certainly served well.

Looking for something for longish more leisurely based rides (as the wife has just got a bike). Was naturally thinking more endurance / sportive type. My budget is certainly no more than £1500

Ideally I'd like something with 105 (or better), not fussed about discs at all. Not overly fused whether carbon or aluminium - assuming weight difference isn't that vast.

I'm liking the following....

Trek Domane
Trek Emonda alr5 (I know it's more race based than Domane
Did look at/try a cube attain (53) but didn't really like it

I keep looking at the look 765 on Merlin (no pun intended)

Anything glaringly obvious I've missed? I'm limited locally to specialized, giant (tried the racier tcr2), focus, cube, trek. A bit further for Scott and cannondale

Cheers

kimchiwitrice

Any reason why you haven't considered Canyon?

donboogie

Rumour is the Giant Defy will be an all new frame for 2019. Worth a look. Details should come out soon.

dimmockg

In all honesty I'd completely over looked canyon

Thanks for the info on giant defy models

dimmockg

Here is my slightly shorter list....

Giant Tcr 2 - tried a few weeks back and was impressive
Trek emonda alr5 - not ridden yet but think local shop has one
Cube attain gtc pro

I had discounted the cube but had another ride on it and it felt much better than previous - I was a little rushed before (wife and kids) so had a bit longer this time around

Thigh_burn

Only comment I'd add are given time of year, if you hang on a month or two you might start to see some decent savings on 2018 models as 2019 models start coming into the shops.