Money buys correction and deadlines. It does not buy hours, and hours are what B1 is made of.
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Runs three tanks with no injection and a great deal of patience.
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Being the worst in the room is worth about three months. It is unpleasant for two weeks and then it is just normal.
This is the point that keeps getting missed. Insulation over an unsealed ceiling plane is money set on fire. Air seal, then insulate, and the blower door is how you know which one you have got.
Break-even in good conditions is a far more useful answer than any wattage figure I've been given.
The pad that helped me wasn't marketed as ergonomic, it was just enormous: about 90 x 40 cm, so keyboard and mouse both sit on cloth and my forearm never crosses a hard lip anywhere on the desk.
Then buy the chain and stop worrying. Keep a spare quick link in the saddle bag.
Chain now. At 0.5 on 10 speed you are well inside the window, and 10 speed cassettes tolerate more chain wear than 11 or 12 do.
The maths: three $30 chains over roughly 9000km beats two $95 combos over the same distance, and it spreads the cost. The only reason to wait would be if this cassette has already run past 0.75 once, in which case it is already compromised and you would be buying a chain that skips.