2011... I'd been diagnosed in 2010 with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and sold my very nice Y2k-ish Cannondale road bike, an Ultegra-level Saeco team model in Ronald Macdonald scheme. (It would now qualify me for the 7-8-9 speed brifter bike forum!) I didn't know what I had - in either sense. I never knew how good it was, since I'd bought it used around 2008. I bought it for $400 and sold it for the same - what I now know was a song. As my life with my heart bug has evolved, I've wished I'd had it back a lot.
It was a few years after that I got my Dad's old Paramount from him and found Bike Forums when looking for help rebuilding it. At the time my hobbies were home brewing, motorcycles, and a service organization called Active 20-30.
I still had a MTB but didn't ride it much, being that I lived in an apartment and had a dog, so I prioritized afternoon walkies.
Pretty soon (Dec 2011) I'd meet my wife.
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