boro,

I think it's fantastic that it changed your life.

But this isn't a "cycling changed my life" thread. This is "Another Denali lifetime report thread". Therefore, I address it on its merits.

And the merits are as I stated them. Which is praise for a heavy, crude frame with bizarre and non-standard componentry on which you have replaced everything in a very short span. That, my friend, makes these "lifetime reports" rather bizarre.

You could have had a better bike for cheaper (in the end) by starting with BD or Nashbar. You could have also posted a "cycling changed my life" thread about those. But you know, and I know, that the long term appeal, if you will, of this thread is the Denali train-wreck factor. That's what makes these go so long...not the life-changing, positive impact of cycling.

So don't kid me, or yourself, about the actual content here.