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    From Luis Bruno@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Apr 28 07:57:58 2025
    Last time I wrote this subject in this group, I had just quit from the chocolate factory for a new job, hopefully where I'd have more cycles.

    That was July 7th, 2021 -- joining a high-freq trading firm didn't have
    the effect I expected :)

    How are yous doing?
    --
    Luis Bruno

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  • From Richard Heathfield@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Apr 28 15:23:38 2025
    On 27/04/2025 22:57, Luis Bruno wrote:
    Last time I wrote this subject in this group, I had just quit
    from the chocolate factory for a new job, hopefully where I'd
    have more cycles.

    Halfords, presumably.

    (Good choice. Wide selection of carbon-fibre frames.)

    --
    Richard Heathfield
    Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
    "Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
    Sig line 4 vacant - apply within


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  • From Roger Bell_West@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Apr 28 20:52:08 2025
    On 2025-04-28, Richard Heathfield wrote:

    Halfords, presumably.

    (Good choice. Wide selection of carbon-fibre frames.)

    Absolutely do not trust their service departments to do anything more
    than the utter basics.

    --
    The Windows Perl motto: It's just as well there's more than one way to
    do it because most of them don't work.
    -- Simon Cozens

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  • From Michel@3:633/280.2 to All on Mon Apr 28 21:25:32 2025
    On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:23:38 +0100, Richard Heathfield wrote:
    On 27/04/2025 22:57, Luis Bruno wrote:
    Last time I wrote this subject in this group, I had just quit
    from the chocolate factory for a new job, hopefully where I'd
    have more cycles.

    Halfords, presumably.

    (Good choice. Wide selection of carbon-fibre frames.)

    Lots of vendor lock in too. Or at least they used to, lots of special
    bits and consumables that you can only get from them and that any
    normal bike shop doesn't have.

    But I suspect if you're looking at cf frames, you're a Serious Cyclist
    and used to that sort of unobtanium stuff.

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  • From David Gersic@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Apr 29 00:12:55 2025
    On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:57:58 +0100, Luis Bruno <im+usenet@lbruno.org> wrote:

    How are yous doing?

    Hung it up and retired. Highly recommended.


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  • From Garrett Wollman@3:633/280.2 to All on Tue Apr 29 01:32:09 2025
    In article <c654el-dape3.ln1@rubberchicken.nocrap>,
    Michel <abuse@rubberchicken.nl> wrote:
    Lots of vendor lock in too. Or at least they used to, lots of special
    bits and consumables that you can only get from them and that any
    normal bike shop doesn't have.

    But I suspect if you're looking at cf frames, you're a Serious Cyclist
    and used to that sort of unobtanium stuff.

    I have a carbon-fiber bike (BMC Granfondo[1]) and I've never had any
    difficulty getting maintenance from either the big chain Recreational
    Equipment supplier or the Local Bike Shop. (It's not a bike I would
    ever have bought if I had to pay retail, but my mother was North
    American director of finance for BMC before she retired, so I was able
    to get it at the wholesale price.) The only difficulty so far (ten
    years in) is that Conti doesn't make the original tires any more, so
    when the current set wear out I'm going to have to figure out what to
    replace them with. And I guess maybe at some point the Di2 battery
    will need to get replaced.

    -GAWollman

    [1] I don't think they make this model any more. I could have gotten
    anything they sold, but the shop where I was test-riding had a
    Granfondo, the previous model year's, and I tried it and loved it.
    I'd have looked pretty silly on a TeamMachine or TimeMachine.
    --
    Garrett A. Wollman | "Act to avoid constraining the future; if you can, wollman@bimajority.org| act to remove constraint from the future. This is Opinions not shared by| a thing you can do, are able to do, to do together."
    my employers. | - Graydon Saunders, _A Succession of Bad Days_ (2015)

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