Repurchased the Xstream I sold last year.  
 
Mine is an illness....

Quote from Rat Rider on Apr 27^th, 2012, 8:15am:

Lemme know when you tire of it again RATRider...I think Dave is secretly lusting after an Xstream!

Quote from Monkeywrangler22 on Apr 27^th, 2012, 9:00am:

 
 
No secrect according to BROL...

Kind of a funny note on the Ti SXP -- we put it together, and started riding around the neighborhood a bit, with me on his (my) old SXP beside him on the Ti...  I looked over, and the rear DR was stretched all the way forward!!  I immediately said "Pull over, and don't shift gears - your derailleur's maxed out!"  He was in the 39T up front, and about 24 (3rd) in back, and there was very little slack left...  like the chain wasn't long enough, or something funky about the DR.
 
We got back to the house, and counted the links -- 119 -- and looked up the specs on the RANS website.  119 is the right chain length, all right... for a REGULAR frame, but this is an XL!!!  The XL spec is 127...  so whomever assembled it at the factory put the wrong chain on.
 
I asked about it at RANS, and heard (I'm paraphrasing), "Yep, we had a guy who just couldn't keep things straight, back then -- but he's long gone..."
 
Dave added the missing 8 links, and all is well...

2 new cell phones.  I held off for many years, but had to get off the pre-paid plans, and have upgraded to pay as you go...so still no contract and we own the phones...i'm SO cheap!  

Bought a Catrike Trail for my wife from Mike at Easy Street Recumbents.
 
She made him and Gene work for the sale though.  She tried virtually every trike in the shop and had them adjusting each one to suit her.  In spite of being extremely busy, they were both courteous and answered every one of her questions.  Some that she asked multiple times.  She hasn't ever ridden a multi-speed bike and asked about the gear shifting a few hundred times.  By the time we left their lot this afternoon though, she looked like a pro.
 
Also met a couple there from Burleson who were purchasing an ICE trike.  Great looking trike, but just too much for my pocketbook since the wife got the new Catrike.  I did go for a spin on a Catrike 700 though.  Loved it and will probably buy when the pocketbook recovers.
 

 

Actually snagged this off Ebay a week ago.  It arrived yesterday and I got her all put together.
 

 
The wheelset is a 700C wheelset.  I took her out today for 62 miles, lots of tweaking and adjusting to be done yet to get the position tuned in.
 
As a plus I also got the original 559 wheelset, a Bacchetta Euromesh seat, a carbon seat, (not sure how much I like it yet), a spare fork for running a "B Pivot", two "B Pivots" and a Bacchetta brain box that Vicky immediately adopted.
 
The downside is now Vicky and I have matching bikes...  
 
In order to keep all the Dave Ramsey folks from staging an intervention on me, I've got my Rans F5 up for sale, I'd also like to offer up for sale several poorly behaving children and dogs if anyones interested...  (Just kidding on the kids and dogs, once you met them, you'd want me to pay you money to take them...)
 
Semper Fi