Originally Posted by ossemann

Thanks!

I have no emotional attachment to 3x9 , but that's what's on the bike already. I was hoping to buy drop handlebars and then whatever levers that would work with the existing brakes (tektro hydraulic disc) and drivetrain/derailleurs (shimano... deore?) but I cannot find any. Switching to a 3x10 or 2x11 or whatever is of course doable but imho. prohibitively expensive compared to simply buying a new bike.


I moved to Oslo in July 2018, from Bergen. I was a student elsewhere and when I was done studying I wanted to move, for no particular reason, really. Ended up back home. There I met my now-fiancee who's not from Oslo but pretty close. Two years later she was done studying. And she wanted to move more than I wanted to stay, so...