Originally Posted by
RoadKill
I'm considering this, but my thought was that if I could find another bike that I really want and am more enthusiastic about then I could request a smaller frame Diverge that will be quicker to sell and possibly get more out of it. If I get the 64cm Diverge and decide to sell it there isn't exactly a huge number of people who are looking for something that size. If I were shorter this wouldn't even be an issue. It might still be worth getting the Diverge then if I don't like it sell knowing I will probably have to ship it and sit on it longer. It's not too big of a rush since I'll be working from home for quite some time so a commuter isn't critical right away.
At this point I think if they give me the racks and lights off the AWOL I'll take the Diverge and adapt what I can to it. If I don't like it, cut my losses and just sell.
Thanks everybody for helping me think through this.
I suspect that you'll just get a frame and they'll just swap parts but there is a problem there. The wheels on your Awol look to be quick release and the Diverge is through axle. I'm not sure how they are going to make it all work. And the Diverge looks like it can mount fenders and a rack but it doesn't appear to have any upper mounts for the rack. Not much of a problem on a metal bike but I'd be dubious of using any kind of external clamp on carbon. Kind of a dumb design.
Additionally If the bike were small, you could use a rack mount on the seat clamp but a 64 cm bike has a seat clamp that is up in the stratosphere, comparatively. There aren't many rack that will allow you to use a seatpost clamp.