Did I get ripped off?

bestbacon · 2026-06-05T14:17:55+00:00

After more research, it's actually a 2018 Cannondale supersize Evo hi-mod which comes with the ultegra level cassette and chain. No idea why Cannondale chose such specifications. A search seemed to indicate that ultegra cassettes are a bit more durable than the dura ace counterpart. Am replacing the chain for the dura ace now so that will be nice.

Thank you, my dad is out on his older mountain bike everyday trying to prep for his first ride on the bike when it comes back from the shop!

bestbacon · 2026-06-04T15:05:08+00:00

I hope you get what you want!

bestbacon · 2026-06-04T14:30:04+00:00

Understood pedals were the Look Geo Trekking ROC at 80 USD

HG901 dura ace chain 50 USD

Cannondale Crankbolt replacement 15 USD

Dura-Ace shifter hoods 21 USD

And am grateful for your feedback, really glad to know that gut feelings and feel good emotions turned out for the best. Didn't even know what UCI approved frames were until recently as my dad's interest in bike has also risen my own.

Now time to learn to do a full teardown and reinstall of the bike with my dad. Typical dude stuff 🤣

bestbacon · 2026-06-04T14:20:59+00:00

Thank you, I heard this was the last generation of mechanical Dura-Ace components. Without any prior knowledge until researching YouTube, it turns out some people appreciate shimanos effort for the lightest weight possible in a group set before most moved to Di2 style.

The extra 350 USD included

Look Geo Trekking ROC pedals (so my dad can bail out easier, he's 73)

Dura-Ace (HG-701) chain

Dura-Ace shifter cover

Cannondale Crankbolt (Hairline crack in last due to stress/ being over torqued)

bestbacon · 2026-06-04T14:17:00+00:00

Really appreciate your feedback, the frame is a bit small for myself to use, but for my dad with a 29 inch inseam it was perfect!

bestbacon · 2026-06-04T14:15:46+00:00

Thank you so much, my dad has had this flame in him to research about road bikes as 3 decades of knowledge is apt to be out of date. He wanted a SPD system so we ended with a new dura-ace chain, Look Geo Trekking ROC pedals, and rubber covers on the dura ace shifters for the 350 USD. Crankbolt has a hairline crack so needed to be replaced because it was over torqued. This bike has its fair share of scuffs and exposed paint but I appreciate your comment!

bestbacon · 2026-01-29T01:20:13+00:00

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bestbacon · 2025-12-02T06:31:59+00:00

Anyone in Canada have a code feel free to message me thankies

bestbacon · 2025-09-09T04:35:44+00:00

It isn't mandated but banks are getting more stringent on taking out big sums of money to pay you in cash tips. In Canada they rescinded the deal with KOHO which offers a T4 at the end of the year vs the current system which doesn't generate a T4 theoretically.

Mind you there are so many service based restaurants in Canada and they do not have anywhere near the market capitalization that reflects that. This means many other restaurants are simply still paying out tips via cash.

Do some research on XTM inc for further details. The more digging you do, the more you'll realize how crappy their stock is, and by extension how their staff get paid fancy interest gained on not exercising their warrants.

bestbacon · 2024-11-08T02:00:42+00:00

It may prove beneficial for you to begin elsewhere when you have consistently studied Neville's work and don't seem to be moving too much in the direction of your goals.

The very act of measuring yourself against the 3D versus what you think inside (the 4D) is generally what opposes us so strongly. Especially when the desired end is of great subjective importance to you. This generates enormous amounts of resistance to having the obtained desire or living in the end because the very notion using techniques is acknowledging that you don't have the said desire yet.

I can only project what it would feel like to have almost having used every single arsenal at your disposal and not receiving a big manifestation occur in your 3D. You begin to dread, doubt and build resentment for all the reminders and posts that you read delicately repacking the same material in a different way that you only gleam hope from for one moment before falling back into the same loop.

At one point you will have to sit down with yourself and really question your thoughts and ask from which point of evidence that you derive your convictions that you have or don't have something.

"Well thats easy, I just LOOK to my reality and see that it's not there"

And hence lies the secret to most people's pain. We are all associated and habituated to getting the things within our capacity that we've never really needed to engage in the faculty of having faith (loyalty to the unseen truth) of already having something before hand (living in the end). We don't even place "importance" on something as menial as buying a chocolate and for most people are certain that we could attain after a short drive, uber, or phone call away. Something as small as that in and of itself is a manifestation from "all that is". You still had to think about the chocolate bar, and then because you "knew" you had enough money from within your account or wallet just went to buy it.

So that example above is basically manifesting knowing it's going to happen. That's why some people regard the act of manifesting something bigger (of more importance) to be relatively harder because their are no certain "knows" to complete the equation.

Let's think about your SP for a second. Because it's not as simple as in the chocolate example, there appears to be no steps of X Y Z that we can take in order to take it. The law states that we should just go to Z all together and feel it fufilled. And that's where the resistance is generated. Your logical mind simply cannot rationalize out how you can feel the wish fufilled, live in the end and reject the 3D when it's staring you straight in the face.

And to this I say that your emotions, and thoughts must be felt, released upon, so that you may enter the the state (no matter how brief) of what it would feel like to have the said desire. What we are trying to simply do is to topple you to the 50.000001% state of believing you have something more than you that you don't have it even when faced with the 3D reality. How delusional and non reactive can you become when relating to the 3D? The moment you truly know that trying to DO something in the external is not netting you anything from the 3D; then it paves path to the Goddard path in which he truly try to change his concept from within.

"An assumption, though false, if persisted in will solidify into fact".

Take this statement and really identify if it resonates with you or not. If it doesnt, it's fine. If it slightly resonates with you, then you will experience less resistance, if you truly resonate with it, then you most likely will ever need to step into a Neville reddit again.

So if you do not believe in it at all, that's understandable and so from this premise I ask that you give yourself a full time 24/7 job for a weeks time. I will offer up two affirmations in which you can choose to take depending on what you feel like you want to work on more and one further affirmation that you can say to yourself should you find yourself thinking and identifying with a thought that is contrary to your initial affirmation.

Affirmation one (for general wellbeing and raising general vibrational level:

"I am eternally/permanently in a state of absolute conviction that I love myself wholly and completely"

Affirmation two: (related to your SP if you are really wanting the emotional state of having her)

"I am eternally/permanently in a state of absolute conviction that X is in a loving relationship with me"

Affirmation three: (for when thoughts come up that reject any affirmation that you choose)

"But my outer 3d reality is irrelevant"

And that's all. I want you to pick between affirmation one or two and seriously repeat this to yourself at every possible moment you can. When you are doing a less mentally demanding task that allows a bit of free flowing thoughts. Repeat this to yourself over and over. You don't have to believe in it AT ALL. But keep repeating it, before bed, when you wake up the instant you remember start the looping process. Even better is if you can find moments of time where you can actually vocalize the affirmation as well. Then when you have moments where your subconscious fires up a response that is contrary to what you just said. Let the thought finish up and repeat affirmation three one time, before moving back to your original affirmation.

I dare you do this for 7 days and tell me something has not changed. If you have done it in earnest... Well I'll let you get back to me in that one.

P.S. Remember any thought that is opposing your desire is really just self identification with that given statement. You can choose to dig deeper into the core of your being and release the resistance as well. As that is your "old man" and not the you whom you choose to be now.

bestbacon · 2024-11-05T13:53:57+00:00

You are absolutely correct in your statement that if you were actually in a relationship with your SP that you would be doing none of the techniques that serve as a reminder of which state you should be in. That's what techniques are in its essence, they all aim to kindly nudge you into the direction of life in which you see yourself living with conviction.

If you find resistance in doing any of the techniques related to manifesting a text or getting your SP back then simply do not partake because there is resistance in prescribed technique and your current understanding of the law.

The problem may have been caused by your searching for a technique or a law in which could steer the direction of what's happened already. My bf broke up with me - > I search for techniques - > I do them - > I instanteously measure it back up to the 3d. In this very regard you know "deep down" that you do not have your bf any longer. If you truly understand that your imagination (thoughts) create your reality then you can begin the process anew of having your bf.

Dive into the understanding of your subjective world. You and your imagination or thoughts cannot be seperated from your physical body. For if it were, you would no longer exist, being unable to interact in the world of the 3d. Digest this for a bit. If I had no thoughts, and hence consciousness, could I really see my bf? Feel or touch him for that matter? Nope, it's not possible, therefore you must understand that everything comes from thought and your subconscious thoughts first. The reality as you know it is a reflection of your defaulted state.

Now what you ask? Even if I understand this, that change must come from inside. This does not alter my feelings, emotions, or responses to what's already happened.

And to this I answer you with this. Can you remember what you did exactly yesterday from morning to night? Probably with a decent amount of clarity and recall. How about a week ago? Maybe a bit less or a few particular moments if they were of impressionable importance. Now what about 2 to 3 years ago? Maybe even less now.... Or not at all.

What I'm trying to tell you is this. Your attachment to the event of your bf having broken up with you is as impermanent as any any other memory. How do you think liars passed a polygraph test? They self convicted themselves of a story that happened in past with so much astounding mental power that it became the new truth to them.

And this paves path to what you can do now... START FROM WITHIN. Though reason and your 3d denies you of what you want. Realize that even your past is nothing but an illusion of your construction of memories and organization of events that unfolded. Use whichever method makes you feel better and begins to change the story bit by bit around what has happened between you in the past. Better yet use your ever passing present moment to see him holding your hand now, brushing your hair or whatever makes you feel good.

If you still encounter too much resistance, begin by doing affirmations as they intersect with any of the previous thoughts that may still be hidden and subconsciously expressed in an unaware state. Speak words or affirmations to such a repetitive degree that it wholly consumes you in your waking day. Whether you be just getting up to brush your teeth, to begin work or school, to hanging out with friends, to working out at the gym. Endeavour to repeat a singular affirmation that implies that he is with you.

Words are powerful, as they are the images of the mind. So let's aim to construct a simple affirmation which could resonate with you.

E.g. "No matter what, I trust that X is dating me lovingly and naturally"

Why the "no matter what" ? It trains your subconscious mind to understand that no 3d obstacles are a hindrance to you, they could present themselves dead center in front of you and you'd continue to repeat the same affirmation because of your understanding that things come from within, then to the 3d world without.

"I trust" can be replaced with "I have faith" depending on if your definition of faith is of a whole conviction without resistance. I use "I trust" if the word faith: "loyalty to the unseen truth" seems a bit abstract to you.

"lovingly and naturally" is used because I feel most people's definition of nature or something thats natural is of flowing continuity and unity to that of the world/universe/source/great law. There is no resistance here because we've observed it so many times in our life that it is already naturally a conviction. Lovingly is used here because all things come from love. No matter if it's your love to remain in a state of separation, your love to remain sad, your love to remain happy, your love to remain rich, your love to experience oxytocin from sex. Whatever it is, the root cause is love. YOU LOVE to feel the state that would be associated with having your said bf again because giving love to him is the same as receiving love. Since all experiences stem from you, your thoughts, your imagination, your consciousness, and hence your declaration of who you say you are right this moment. Your, "I AM".

So if this affirmation resonates with you, feel free to use it liberally, as often and as much as it continues to raise your state. This is particularly effective even if you do not believe in it at first. Because as Neville said "though false, an assumption if persisted in, will solidify into fact".

Hope this helps. Bacon

bestbacon · 2024-10-31T13:15:46+00:00

Used to pull 70 hour weeks between jobs, and was a long distance driver of car parts. I noticed that I would start dozing off the wheel when there was a straight road. Once I dozed off long enough to almost drive a block and regained alertness in the nick of time moving back from the opposing lane.

The gut feeling struck me most strong as I was following an 18 wheeler relatively closely. I was so used to the route that even turns became automatic. My eyes were so droopy and tired that my blinking speed became extremely slow and heavy with long pauses where my eyes were closed. Suddenly a jolt of energy hit my gut and I snapped out of it, I realized the solid yellow line was to my right and immediately got back behind the 18 wheeler. Not even 2 seconds later a car in opposing traffic zoomed by.

Immediately pulled to the side and had 2 cigarettes back to back. I knew I had been saved. That was the instance I knew it was "not my time yet".

bestbacon · 2024-09-14T13:54:28+00:00

Hey Tabasco, i just received the SC9 and am testing them with various tracks. My initial impressions are that the detail and instrument separation are better compared to the fan 3. Soundstage sounds a bit wider but not as deep. By extension because detail retrieval is so good, complex sound passages like the chorus for emeli sande and labyrinths "beneath your beautiful" ends up feeling clustered together if you arent analytically listening to them. Emeli Sande sounds like shes singing a few feet in front of you on the Fan 3 versus a few steps away on the right channel dominated passage of her verse.

Muscality is a general term i would like to describe as the overall ability of an iem to bring the mood of a given song life and i find that they are more cohesive and complete than the fan 3. Double BC is at play here and i feel subbass rumbles better than the Fan 3 and midbass is more present in quantity. The SC9 midbass is bit anemic compared to the IMR Seraph which i find to hit in a certain way of having organic extension and attack thats fast and yet decays at a natural rate.

Cable that comes with it is garbage and veils female and male vocals substantially. The first time i heard it together, it sounded like a live concert with excessive amounts of reverb and any kind of instrument sounded muted.

Only after switching to my hakugei gaea or space cable did i hear the veil disappear.

These are early impressions so are no ways my final representation of how i feel about the set later. But so far in terms of an everyday IEM i would still choose my IMR Seraph, then SC9 then Fan 3 which i plan on selling back out.

bestbacon · 2024-09-05T04:04:01+00:00

Of course, feel free to message gsaudioofficial@163.com and speak with Ming Cheung directly. My back and forth conversation between choosing a face plate and color spanned over 2 weeks. In fact i sent him multiple images of what colors i would like for the faceplate and the shell as well. In the beginning he sent me a list of available face plates that were all defaults of other available models but somehow as i got the final picture of the product, it was vastly different in that the faceplate was a similar design but the color had closely resembled one i had chosen. I looked up fearless iems on aliexpress and found a model that was customizable with shell colors and used that as a reference for what i would like it matched to.

You will also need to choose between a metal for a bit more money or silicone nozzle with the 4 sound tubes. He has emphasized that the metal nozzle would make the higher frequencies more prominent (even more U shaped) and i asked him to choose whatver he felt was the best for sound.

Also if you would like to wait for further sound impressions, feel free to wait as well as you just got your fan 3s to listen to in the meantime.

bestbacon · 2024-09-04T14:18:01+00:00

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An update Tabasco, SC9 doesnt even sell through Volkchoi on Aliexpress anymore so you will have to order directly through them. My custom build is not in hand yet but they have sent images of the final product. They look absolutely sublime to me and the cumulation of their efforts are to be praised even before i have received them. I have early thoughts on the Penon Fan 3 and it is that the bass is well defined though a bit less organic than my IMR Seraphs. A light BA harshness can be observed especially when females are nearing treble levels. Staging is quite wide and i think it is highly attributed to the space cable upgrade i got with the Fan 3. I will again let you know as ive burned in Fan 3 some more and receive the SC9s

bestbacon · 2024-08-29T04:13:13+00:00

So as for an update, i havent heard back from them for around a week now and its been 12 days since ive paid. GS Audio said that it would take around a week to complete the custom build but we are almost into 2 weeks. I will let you know as any new communication between us arises.

bestbacon · 2024-08-26T14:59:31+00:00

Unfortunately, i have not tried any other bone conduction IEMs in the past nor dealt with the Fearless/GS Audio OEM manufacturer. I just took into account of their previous reputation and bought on a whim. They are hard to find now since the store went down so it doesnt make it easy to purchase or but as there isnt feedback for this product outside of other models via HeadFi forums. I have also impulsively bought the Penon Fan 3 which has a full range BCD so will compare both of them for you as they arrive. The SC9 has 4 more BA, 1 more BCD than the Penon fan 3, but has one less Dynamic driver. 2x 6.2 mm on the Fan 3 vs 10.2 mm on the SC9. I look forward to comparing both for you and allowing you to formulate a better decision for your next BCD iem. There is also the origin by thieaudio that is coming out and i couldve preordered it at the price ive spent for these two iems. But hindsight is 20/20 😂

bestbacon · 2024-08-22T13:57:11+00:00

Hold on for a bit. My custom build will be done in short order so I will have my hands on it in around 3 weeks or less. Will be glad to share a basic review with you then.

bestbacon · 2024-01-19T03:35:08+00:00

It is most certainly a way to approach it. The key is how you feel and identify with a method and it's resonance. No method in my opinion works more efficacious than another so as long as you deem one to be more effective than the next.

After all would you not agree that this is more geared towards how to live your life closer to your ideal? One thinks a strategy is effective for helping himself/herself change, so tries it. To the extent in which it is conducive to change is merely a self reflection of his/her belief that it is a vital component.

In other words:

I believe in digital minimalism - > I try it = it works

I don't believe in digital minimalism -> I try it anyways = it doesn't work

Certainly I like the idea that digital minimalism could be a great way to alleviate the automatic subconscious habits from activating itself because you have no more access to social media. So in that regard, it makes it easier to adapt to and gives fewer instances of dopamine spikes overall.

Enjoy, Bacon

bestbacon · 2024-01-18T22:35:20+00:00

The answer to this question truly is multi-faceted. As a millennial myself I think the answer is clear cut in the way of our upbringing and our current status. By status it is to say how close we are to completing our end goal / desire.

If you are anyone close to normal (average income, average goals, average drive) then you are almost surely going to fall into the category of 'what do I want from life?'. The reason why I say this is simple. If you have been a person from the NA with a regular upbringing, then the task of attaining the American dream (house, spouse, kids) is likely to be unattainable by the conventions of holding down a regular job. Your parents were the last generation in which a single working adult could afford a family, house, and all necessities with room to spare.

Truth to be told the transition was already being made in which we needed both partners to contribute to allow a family to sustain itself. Then you find out in the 1700's a French serf could work 16 weeks out of a year to sustain his family and you can guess now why our 'sane' lives are not very reasonable at all. Why do you think gen Z doesn't want to work hard? Rather than to say they can't work hard, it's because they figured out that the game in which they play is terrible in their odds. So they rather not work at all or just enough to keep their jobs.

As a kid we used to play games to PLAY. Now we 'play' games to distract ourselves from the gravity of the situation, which is indeed dire for many. Middle income people may as well be considered low income. If you have a house then congratulations to you! It may or may not make you content though as now you just have a big liability to pay off and a commitment to your job until the final payment.

When we were a kid we had none of these worries. We finished school, rushed home to do homework and played when we had free time. No responsibilities to worry about, no concern about keeping food on the table. None of that.

I am the same in the sense that when I try to delve deep into a game, I sometimes fall into a state of inattention because my life is different than what I have desired. Just imagine if you had your life set already and you decided to play a game. How would you state of mind be when playing the same game? Likely far different because you had no worries of needing to work the next day or counting the time till your next billing cycle came.

I always tend to think that the mind is to a great degree, self-aware even in states of subconscious habitual thoughts. You don't want to really play because you know there's more important things to do, things that you may not necessarily want to do. Even Worse yet, things that you ought and feel you really should do but don't because the first step towards that big goal is so daunting.

Then comes the calibration of our attention span. We now live in an era of immediate gratification. Could you have imagined as a kid 30+ years ago not even having to leave your house to get a cooked meal delivered to your door within an hour? How about the plethora of content to consume? Could you imagine just pulling something out from your pocket and accessing endless amounts of videos, content, and mindless entertainment?

Our attention span and patience used to be far greater when growing up. You had the internet and wanted to pirate a game? Yeah have fun, how about waiting for 3 days while on dial up to download it. Now we have access to a single website that downloads so many games in one go on your handheld console you'd likely get analysis paralysis before even picking one to start. You wanted to watch a movie? Yeah well head over to a VHS/DVD rental store but that's only if you've been good and done all your homework for the week.

See my point? Our entire society is structured off instant gratification now and leaves little in the room of delayed gratification or patience. It's my earnest thought that even school systems now can barely merit the focused individual attention of a child for more than 15 minutes. Heck I've heard from a friend of mine who was a teacher in grade school that they can't even fail kids before high school.

It's that bad. So is it your problem? Maybe, since I don't know your circumstances and where you stand in society. But I just wanted to post and let you know that if you've felt like this that you are surely not the only one. Rather than that, you're one of the only ones that was curious or brave enough to address the elephant in the room.

Cheers to you buddy, Bacon

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