Hello All,

I appreciate everybody's comments, and everybody's wit. I think email and web postings tend to twist subtlety, nuance and humor into misunderstandings. But (if I may) I haven't seen anything wrong on this thread.

As far as the bike goes, I levelled the rear rack. I've got my 3 water bottle cages on order, and I'm trying to find one of my fav rack bags in stock locally - then I've got some panniers to hang, and the seat to break in. The seat feels good, I've set it a little bit low for the first few rides.

It does seem like the bottom bracket is lower on the LHT than usual, I could see how you might be more likely to get a heel strike while turning.

I'm thinking that I won't be able to get both my handlebar bag and my headlight on the current lower bar, so I may replace it with a wider bar - my LBS gave me a carbon fiber handlebar that was cracked slightly at one end, I may use it - it'll be the first CF item I've used, it seems a bit of a joke on my 32-pound bike. And if I do go with a new lower handlebar, I'll probably put bar-end lights in the ends for side visibility.

Probably a bento-box aft of the stem, above the top bar.

I also need to work out a kludge mount for my GPS on top of the aero bars - I saw a photo on BF of the same unit (Garmin 76CSX) held onto aero bars with a set of velcro wraps, that would be just the thing.