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Lads, how feasible does changing the wheelset of a bicycle (downgrade) in the LBS before purchase sound?
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I pre-ordered a Giant TCR Advanced 1 Disc, should be here next spring. But lately I've been looking more and more into the model one step above - Advanced Pro 1 Disc.
Differences:
>Full carbon fork
as opposed to carbon with alloy steerer
>Full Ultegra
as opposed to Ultegra/105 mix
>Marginally lighter finishing kit (stem, bars, saddle)
>Carbon SLR1 wheelset
as opposed to alloy PR2 wheels
I could stretch my budget above the Advanced, but not all the way to the Pro (the price difference is +50%). I would gladly sacrifice the carbon SLR1 wheelset in favour of the cheap alloy PR2. I realize that the bikes arrive semi-assembled in boxes and there's no way for the importer or LBS to change the specification. On the other hand this is a large Giant-only store we're talking about and they are located in the same (capital) city as the country's importer. So maybe they have spare wheelsets they could hook me up with?
Is this an outrageous thing to ask them about or should I just suck it up and settle for the Advanced 1? That electric blue though... =(
