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Six jours
I keep considering the Nitto stem from Compass, but that's a lot of money. Then it's another $200 for the custom decaleur (which seems outrageous no matter how you look at it) and then, because the new stem and decaleur have limited adjustment, I probably will have to replace my Berthoud bag too. IOW I can get rid of the slightly bodgy drilled bell spacer for just under $700. So I probably will keep considering...
In the old days we referred to some shops as "Boutique Stores" -- pronouce the OU as a long ooh. In was not meant to be a positive connotation. It basically mean the store only carried a very few select items which were targeted to extreme shoppers and basically those folks with way too much money.
I saw one store near Pittsburg that had a matching set of a Porche, a Harley, a golf cart, a crazy drillium Colnago racer, an enormous elephant gun, and several other oddities... Marketing point was that all were modified to the extreme and all were plated in real gold. Several buyers were reported to have practically fought over the collection and it was all sold to the winner in less than a week...