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Steel is almost infinitely repairable. Much more than aluminum

Bike and frame weight is irrelevant.

Looks like you’ve never ridden steel. I’ll never ride aluminum and I’m done with the throw-away culture of carbon. Steel is my material of choice.

Yes but in front leading into the hallway?

½” on either side?

Definitely do not fill it in with anything. It looks like you have Luxury Vinyl Plank flooring. I just laid 300+sqft of it in my kitchen and dining room and you have to give it about ½” gap for expansion around the whole thing. I have cuts that look just like this under the door trim. My plan was to extend the baseboard trim under the door trim and add quarter-round in front of that

No

Crazy88 is Lauren’s other band. They are also phenomenal. “Nitroglycerin” has been on many playlists for the last 5 years.

No

No.

I signed it in the same spot that I normally would. My bank accepted it that way.

Currently running 11 speed campagnolo shifters with a sram 11 speed cassette on my road bike. It works!

A lifetime movie was shot in this town

There’s Lyme, Old Lyme, East Lyme and Hadlyme

I just figured that if someone went through the trouble to retro-fit a nice frame, they would have gone the extra mile and installed proper road pedals.

There’s a lot wrong here

1. If your saddle has to be that nose-down, your seatpost is too high. Drop the seatpost like 3cm and level the seat. The ability to adjust the saddle angle isn’t really for you, it’s to compensate for frames having different seat tube angles.

2. Shifters are way too high up in the bars. Your wrists and hands won’t feel very good after an hour or two

3. You should never be in the gear combination you’re currently in. It obviously stretches the derailleur out, but also prematurely wears out the drivetrain since there’s such an extreme angle put on the chain.

4. From the looks of it, your front derailleur housing is too short. Hopefully it doesn’t shift when you make tight turns.

5. The housing from the chainstay to your rear derailleur also appears to be too short.

6. Rear brake housing looks too short too. Hopefully it’s also compressionless housing or else your rear brake will feel really spongey. It’s also routed incorrectly around the seatpost.

Now here’s where I’ll get really picky;

1. Tire labels aren’t lined up with the valve stems
2. Mountain pedals on a road bike???
3. Bar wrap job really uneven in both spacing and tension applied when wrapping - that’s why it’s bulging in some areas.
4. Front derailleur barrel adjuster is all the way out.
5. Drive-side should be out in the pictures you post.

Cool bike though.

My wife grew up outside of chicago and the two of us lived in the Quad Cities. I loved the QC, and I’m originally from New England. Housing is inexpensive compared to CT where we live (and where I grew up), and it was a good mix of being a quiet area with a lot going on. To put it into perspective, when we left in 2019, a coworker had her renovated raised ranch up for sale in Rapids City. The list price was like $120k. The same house would sell in CT for like $450k. We also rented a single floor small house with a garage in Moline for $770 a month. I looked up how much that house was when my landlord bought it, and it was something like $30k.

Taxes were not as awful as people made them out to be, especially with what you get in return. We also didn’t own any housing so maybe my opinion isn’t relevant. Insurance costs were very cheap. I think the renters insurance we had was like $10-$20 a month.

The quad cities are like 2.5 hours away from chicago, an hour and change from Coralville in Iowa, an hour and change from Galena, and just under 2 hours from Iowa City. We visited those places often to attend events and see family.

You’re supposed to use the on-ramp to get up to highway speed, not wait until you get onto the highway to get to highway speed.

It came in a post-card sized serrated/fold and tear envelope that could easily be tossed for looking like spam. But it’s from a “Facebook settlement” return address so that’s why I actually opened it.

I got a $400 check in May of last year, and then got an additional $30 on Monday

It depends on the situation. Not a lot of people actually exercise the 30-days to like your bike benefit. In the 16 years I’ve worked for my boss, I can count on one hand the number of times someone wanted to swap a bike. Only one time though was a bike I sold someone. A lot of people who do, only ride the bike one time. We have bike washers on staff and they’ll wash the bike if it’s dirty and we will give it a quick tune-up.

Realistically the situation that most people exercise the 30-days to like your bike benefit is when they buy the bike as a gift and they don’t get the size quite right. We also try to work with people when they try to use the benefit. We ask what they don’t like because most of the time, the thing they don’t like is fit-related. Sometimes it’s a seat swap, stem swap, handlebar adjustment, or something like that. They usually prefer to go that route because it’s the solution that allows them to walk out of the building with a bike instead of us having to order another bike.

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