Originally Posted by NoControl

The dealio with your bike is not so much the carbon fiber frame, but the road tires/wheels that come with it. Harsh riding. Touring does not have to be a torturous ordeal that many make it out to be. Use your roadie for workouts and get yourself a more-relaxed frame with the ability to run some wider tires. My wife can ride for miles on her bike, which is a converted Trek 930, with 1.75 Continentals on it. Our backroads here in western NH are absolutely brutal on my road bike with a 700x23 setup. I pretty much have to ride out of the saddle for about 4.5 miles just to get to the main road, which then smooths out like glass.

FWIW, your carbon bike will work. Get yourself bikepacking bags and set it up that way, and you'll never have to bolt anything to the frame. Boom!