Well, I hope that no further posts means Shundaroni got the bike & is out riding... but IMO, 50 mile to a bike shop in WV is NOT unusal or uncommon. Unless one lives in Morgantown, the Kanawha Valley, Beckley, Martinsburg, Buckhannon, Snowshoe or Canaan Valley, one WILL drive about that to a bike shop. Benn doing it for a decade. I have more than ONE bike shop on speed dial, depending upon which direction I am headed out to. The 2 shops I use most are 70 and 120 miles away from home (I regularly work nearby, tho).
I have waited between 3 and 6 months for frames to be shipped from their respective factories - the culprit might just be the dude at the factory promising something that the production manager would not have agreed to, had the production manager been asked.
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