IMHO, An aluminum $2500 bike better have pretty high-end groupset, or something else to recommend it.
Over $2500 and I want carbon in a road bike. Even at $2500, I would consider a left-over or lightly-used last year's carbon bike.
Or maybe a nicer steel one.
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-Jeremy
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