I didnt,this was closest i got,was tempted away from a conventional road bike by this one as is pretty sturdy option halfway in between, was worried about ending up spending fortunes fixing buckled wheels etc as conventional road bikes are a wee bit more fragile than I think I could cope with, been used to using mtb's so thought I needed to learn how to ride a lighter road style bike before going the whole hog on a carbon framed etc etc fancy thing. There was a v interesting canondale but I'm too impatient to wait till end of April for it!