Oh, pal.
My job is very physical and is literally hands on; I CAN NOT afford to get jacked up on the way to work.
The short version of it is: if I could afford to have a stable of bikes, I would have one for every occasion, but in my search for a race(y) bike I can commute on, CF just won’t work
for me.
I guess I could buy a steel bike for my commute and/or gravel and an aluminum racer for crits with the $ I’m dropping on one nicely equipped Ti bike, but I’d rather have one bike to rule them all. I’m glad I made someone laugh today, that’s kind of one of my main mini goals in life. But in regards to carbon being too stiff for me, maybe I should have noted that YMMV.