I kinda feel your pain. Last fall my wife's and my higher end flat bar bikes needed a drivetrain replacement or new bikes purchased. After looking at the offerings of all the major manufacturers we decided to upgrade our current bikes with new wheels and drivetrain. Then a couple of months in our dream bikes became available here in the states..... another high end flat bar road bike. So we purchased those as well. Now we have two sets of high end flat bar bikes. One new and one with $1000.00 upgrades with less than 2000 miles on the upgrades. Our solution is to turn the older bikes into our travel and bad weather bikes. Just got back from a 2 week trip in our motorhome with the travel bikes on the back. Worked great.