Man, I’m considering something I’m sure many would consider foolish. But I have the super six evo2 in carbon - posted somewhere above. I haven’t ridden it, only some test drives around the block, so literally less than 2 miles on it. Haven’t ridden b/c of weather and I’m mainly on the trainer in winter anyways.
It’s a nice bike, but it was never my first choice of frame color. I thought about doing the cheaper evo and upgrading like w/ the evo 3 above but I didn’t love the evo 3 white either (no offense, your setup is very nice). It’s more because I actually like branding on the downtube. So they released the evo 4 at some point after I bought the evo 2. I really like the gloss black/white frame. I saw an IG photo of an upgraded 4 I can no longer find, and well it looked perfect to me.
I contacted my LBS about an exchange. They said they could work something out. But if did this, I’d basically be buying the evo 4 complete bike just for the frame, seatpost and seat, because I’d be upgrading everything else. Initially I thought it was 105 di2, but it’s not, which made me think twice, but I still can’t get that image of the perfect bike out of my head. I priced it out, and assuming I pay some premium to do this exchange, I’m looking at either keeping my stock evo 2 at retail price (only change I made was upgrading to 28 mm Pirelli P zero tires) OR
Exchange for the evo 4, apply partial refund to upgrades, and then pay whatever difference, which I calculated would come out to about $1700 more (full ultegra di2, ultegra c50 wheels (or something equivalent), enve aero bar (or something equivalent). If I went full 105 di2, it’d be $500 less or so? And then if I could sell the mechanical 105 groupset, maybe that takes the premium below $1000, which doesn’t sound TOO bad, right?? Am I crazy?