Originally Posted by jyossarian
So as soon as you put a wrench to a $7,000 Serotta, it's no longer a Serotta? Not everyone can afford to pick up a bike at the LBS. Cigtech showed w/ some basic knowledge of bike maintenance, you could ride a Denali w/o it exploding underneath you.
Also it seems obvious that a lot of the "maintenance" performed by the OP was more in the line of tinkering over every little squeek or noise (or dialing in for perfection) that would/could have been ignored by someone less interested or obsessed in fixing such "problems."
I also suspect the OP would be just as busy tinkering and dialing in a new $7,000 Serotta; especially one that he expected to be perfect.