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Originally Posted by pylon
Sorry, but once you cross the $2500-3000 barrier on a current carbon road bike nowadays, unless your last name is Armstrong or LeMond, you aren't going to see a measurable difference to a $10,000 bike. You might shave off 1/2 - 1 pound at the expense of less durable components, and you'll get to work 18 seconds faster.
If I was commuting on a drop bar road bike, and am buying Aluminum frame with Shimano 105 and Panniers. If it gets dumped, it's still rideable, it it gets trashed or stolen, it is replaced for less than the cost of your Aero bars, and giant disk Velodrome rear wheel. Need a new crankset? $120 on ebay. For $1200 you'll get a bike that will last just as long, if not longer, that weighs 2 pounds more, and slows you down a minute.... maybe, over your 64 kms.
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And you'll be in better shape
My ride would be about 40kms round trip, I do it on my mountain bike to make it a harder ride vs. my road bike. Also with the path in the shape it is. . . .