What do you guys think?

[Possegal]

The Domane 2.0 comes as a triple too. As does the Madone 2.1
This one too. I've not seen it at the store I was in, but it's kind of cool.
http://www.trekbikes.com/us/en/bikes...rip/crossrip/# They call it a 'fitness' road bike, so I could see how they maybe didn't consider it as a road bike. But no way the Madone isn't a road bike by anyone's definition. I'm more inclined to think the guy is ill-informed rather than lying, but who knows. I can see how it would alter your opinion. I was helping a friend bike shop and the Cannondale shop kept trash talking Treks. It turned me off a bit from them. I wanted to say - you have an amazing bike, it stands fine on its own without you trash talking your competition.

I've started looking around for a new bike and I did see that there were no triples in the Trek store I was looking at. I need to test ride and am trying to not convince myself I need a triple, based on all I've learned here. But I need to pedal up some hills to really convince myself.