Road bike around $2,000

Surly Dave said:

Hi all,

After nearly two years of commuting and audax riding, I'm keen to
replace my 25-year-old road bike. My budget is around $2,000. After
much browsing online I'm considering either a Giant OCR1 or a Trek
1400. The bike would be for shorter audax rides and hopefully some
racing. I'd be grateful if anyone can offer opinions on either of these
two bikes or any other recommendations.

Only one recommendation - testride them both, and let your [censored] decide
🙂

Quoted message said:

Only one recommendation - testride them both, and let your [censored] decide
🙂

Very sensible. I am planning to do that as well!

Quoted message said:

After nearly two years of commuting and audax riding, I'm keen to
replace my 25-year-old road bike. My budget is around $2,000. After
much browsing online I'm considering either a Giant OCR1 or a Trek
1400. The bike would be for shorter audax rides and hopefully some
racing. I'd be grateful if anyone can offer opinions on either of these
two bikes or any other recommendations.

I've got a Giant TCR2, about 4 years old, which I love to bits... Not as
comfortable as my 20 year old Gitane that it replaced, but pretty damn
close, and a LOT quicker...

Spec-wise, probably around the same, all depends how it rides :-)