Originally Posted by
Jarrett2
I want more of a beater bike. Not sure whether a Sora Roubaix or AWOL makes more sense there.
I'm not sure I would call a $2000 bike a beater bike. But, to each his own.
Other options would include hunting down a used Roubaix frame on E-Bay and shifting your Secteur parts over onto it. Or, buying the new Roubaix, and swapping parts between it and the Secteur.
There have been people who bought bikes with cheap groupsets, disassembled, and sold the groupset as a "new-pull" on E-Bay, then rebuilt the bike as they desired.
There are lots of upgrade options.
The one thing, I wouldn't stress about super-light wheels on a touring bike.