Nope, but we wanted to go to Compact double and to 10 speed. The 04Roubaix that we have is only 9 speed and a triple. Doing that change to those bikes did not make sense to us since the bikes have the base aluminum/carbon frames and they just weren't worth upgrading. Hence the reason to move up to the Experts and it also got us a much better carbon frame. Not to mention we now have the same bikes as a back-up bikes and trainer bikes. Makes going from one to the other much easier since the geometry is exactly the same.

Really, the reasoning for us to buy the bikes should not matter. The fact is we wanted them and the disposable cash was there, so we bought! We know these suckers will give us a few years of fun before we move onto the next ones.

Life is grand when you set it up to have the extra cash to play!!!