My comment and have written about this is...the Al bikes that Specialized are making are watershed in my experience. I just built a Al Secteur Elite for light touring with panniers and it has a better ride than my carbon Roubaix SL3 Pro. I am astounded because the Roubaix SL3 in particular has class leading ride quality...a great bike. And yet, the Al Secteur absorbs road shock better inexplicably.
For all intents the Secteur is a Al Diverge without disk brakes and honestly why I chose the Secteur over the Diverge because I didn't want disk brakes and wasn't going to run a tire size larger than 28c.
If you are on a budget in particular don't race competitively, my advice is get the Al Diverge if you need tires larger than 28c and your bank acct will think you.
Last edited by Campag4life; 06-26-15 at 02:31 PM.