welcome, have fun, stay safe. Bike choices quite limited, I think friend said emonda sold out til 3rd quarter this year. some brands only have shipment once a year, friend got a lapierre last year, this year even shop dunno when coming it, so his bike is very rare cos only 10 units in Malaysia lol.

ah, what did you manage to find in the end? if not mistaken BMC and giant ss2 had stock, K&L in seri kembangan has a few brands in stock, went a few weeks ago. from rm4k-30k, got options at different budgets

ah nice. trek emonda and domane aluminium frames welding quite smooth, if dont look closely you would think the frame was carbon. and some midrange carbon frame arent much lighter than alu anyways haha. what size tyres are you using for the domane? 28-32mm?

ah ok. wire bead, not the smoothest. once worn out or itchy change to nicer tyres and feel a world of difference haha. first thing I change on bikes are usually tyres, stock ones not as nice lol. but if not used to nice stuff then keep using the r1 until worn out before changing haha. once used to nice tyres there's no turning back

haha habis kena poison already haha. easiest and cheapest way to change how a bike feels is the tyres and tubes. heard latex increases comfort by a lot too, but most latex tubes come with short valve stems and I'm not keen on using extender cos its a potential leak point. and latex tubes for tyres above 28mm not common too.

My current tyres are vittoria corsa 2.0 28mm, found on shopee rm175 each, considered cheap so try la. 320tpi very comfy, not puncturing as often as the corsa 1.0 which I threw away after 6 punctures in 1 month, puncture protection layer seemed non existent. used sworks, pirelli p zero velo, michelin power competition, no complaints. schwalbe one (before pro one) was not bad but didnt have good wet traction, rubino pro, gp4000 sii also used before, I cant say I would recommend lol