Its a pinnacle. Its a good bike but I don't love it. I'd gladly sell it, sell the caad7 buy a brompton and have the caad12 as my only road bike. I don't care for fat tyres or guards. But most of everything else I see doesn't excite me like this does
I feel you but you are chucking cash in the wrong direction and bodging things at a bad end of the spectrum i.e. Sram front mech, its one thing where you need the best possible built in (over)engineered stiff solution.
Its a pinnacle. Its a good bike but I don't love it. I'd gladly sell it, sell the caad7 buy a brompton and have the caad12 as my only road bike. I don't care for fat tyres or guards. But most of everything else I see doesn't excite me like this does