More info/choices for OP is always good. And people's idea of "a little bit more" always varies. My thinking though was that if OP knows of Roam 2, he likely knows of the whole Roam lineup, including the Roam 1 for $1000. If he was comfortable with $1000+ he'd have started this thread with Roam 1. The Pathlite starts above the Roam 1, so that's why it didn't occur to me to recommend that (or any other bike over $1000). I had intuited that if he chose to start at the $700 range, knowing the next step up in that line was $1000, by "staying around the price" he meant capping it at below what the Roam 1 was at.

But it's his call, and Canyon does have a stellar reputation!