Originally Posted by chipcom
Can you tell us what brands your preferred LBS carries? The Trek is a good bike, but other manufacturers have similar bikes, including Giant and their FCR series flat-barred road bikes.
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If you do feel like you should be loyal to this shop, and they sell Giants (assumption since you are riding a Sedona) you do have options.
You can go with the FCR, or there is a step in between, and that is the Cypress. The Cypress is generally the same as the Sedona except it has road type tires and 700x40c tires.
My guess is that for what you wan would be the FCR (perhaps the FCR-3) with its 700x28c tires you should be able to cruise on the road pretty well.
Personally, I would bypass the Cypress and look at the FCR just so that you have a little more difference between your two bikes, it makes the expenditure seem more reasonable in my mind.