Sorry, as said above, I didn’t give a lot of info. Suddenly had to go and do some work.

I’m looking at a couple of road bikes for me and the wife (that’s two total, not two each).

Use will be day rides in the Peak or similar when the trails are a bit too grotty to go mountain biking, but we’re still discussing exact use. It’s either going to be: –
A) Our original thoughts were carbon frame (just because we’d not owned one before), hydro disc brakes and through axles. Short list are the Focus Cayo disc, Trek Domane or KTM Revelator Sky. However, bit put off the Trek by the bottom bracket. If it does go wrong and creaks or frets, you can’t just chuck a Hope in and be done with it. However, Focus and KTM don’t take guards.

Or

B) If they’re only going to get used in the dry, then discs aren’t such an issue and without discs, neither are bolt through axles. So the choice might then be carbon (because we’ve never had plastic bikes) with a full 105 groupset (including brakes). Now guards aren’t so important but tubeless compatible wheels might be nice.

Fire away.

My Kinesis Tripster is disc with QR and it’s not given me any bother. However, I remember my wife’s and a friend’s Specialized mountain bikes having issue with discs and QRs. Not in riding terms but in terms of being able to get a repeatable setup when removing and reinserting the wheels.

If I’m jumping to discs on road, I might as well go bolt through as well. I know it’s about as rational as deciding the bikes will be carbon but isn’t that the way lots of us pick our bikes?

Hope bulb 5 bolt so no spare hubs for me. The tripster isn’t a bad bike as it is. I managed the bike leg of an iron man in about 5:45, just fancied something a bit “zinggier” for me and the Mrs.