Avid Amoeba
So is this helping or hurting Harris?
The fact that they’re even going down this path, vilifying people’s pensions is fucking disgusting. As if a pension should be some sort of a luxury. This should be used to clap straight back at PP in the form of standing up for more people to have pensions, not fewer.
Could be, depends. You can measure things and see. I did the opposite conversion years ago - drops to handlebars on a Jamis road bike. Worked fine in that case.
Another thing to consider is your back. I don’t know how “aero” you sit on your current but many drop bar bikes have more athletic position than can give you back pain. There are options to raise the bars but they’re not amazing. If you already have the shrimp racing position, then you should be fine.
If I’m doubt get your friend’s bike for a longer ride and see how it is.
It seems like Canadians have a pretty fair assessment of Polinever’a agenda.
Your Transeo can already go on dirt roads. Perhaps with a different set of tires. Going road or gravel generally means going drop bars and you have to be okay with that. Personally I’m not. Some people do swap drop bars for handlebars but then you’d get what you already have. Personally I’d likely upgrade the Transeo. I’d change the tires, brakes and if I’m feeling generous - the drivetrain. If I experience any issues with wheels going out of true, then I’d replace the wheels too.
You could try finding changed config files by running:
sudo debsums -ac
Note that this won’t catch all. There are files that packages install and don’t touch afterwards. I my case for example it does catch that /etc/gdm3/custom.conf was modified to enable autologin among other things.
