Went to a coffee competition recently, both fascinating and boring at the same time. One of the things they competed with was the aeropress and who made the best coffee with it. Watched one round of 5 hipsters, measure the color and size of each bean, grind, sift the grinds for size, then brew...
I work at Gray Goat Bicycles. My current advice is look at used. We are currently running a waitlist for new bikes about 50 people long and can't get any sort of expected dates of when we are getting them in.
In used the things to check are the actual gears, if they are shark fin shaped walk...
Bed bath and beyond or williams sonoma (are they still at keystone?) would be the best local stops. Professionally I would recommend Global, Wustoff, or Henckels that you can find locally. Only buy by the piece, avoid sets. If they won't let you handle the knife and test the fit in your hand...
Reminds me of my nephew's preschool banning finger guns and saying "bang bang" a few years ago. ALL the boys just changed to their own words for "bang", my nephew choose "meatball" for some reason. You would just be sitting at their house and he would run in, point at you, yell "meatball...
I like the Roll, not for me but for the person who wants its features. Smooth ride, decent weight, solid build options. They have offered a couple of special editions over the years that ALMOST got me to get one.
I can't believe no one has recommended this yet. It dropped a rod, SO PICK IT UP.
I know practically nothing about engines.
And +1 for hyundai, 180k on mine before wreck, kia at 120k.
Having been on the receiving end of "rolling coal" on a bicycle, it REALLY sucks. And to make it worse we can hear the difference in a diesel vs gas truck and almost feel it coming.
If anyone is interested, the bike shop I work at part time has a Saturday morning group ride at 8am. We have 2 groups that split after 12ish miles, 1 group turns back for 25ish miles. The second continues on for 50 miles. We leave Gray Goat on the southside and head south into the corn fields of...