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I suspect you could handle those “blacks” - none of what I remember out around horsetooth is too crazy for a strong intermediate rider but if I’m wrong I hope someone with better memory steps in 🤣

If you’re really worried about being on the edge, no sense in getting a Ripley over a Ripmo - they both pedal incredibly well and the extra plush of a Ripmo might give you a confidence boost.

I have the same dell form factor - 3060. Love it.

Most of the close to town stuff is going to be up near horsetooth res. Maxwell and Foothills are on the east side of the res so a little more accessible, but that means also busier.

For my money, I’d go over to the west side and pick a route. I usually get suckered into riding up Towers which is a solid test of your fitness. For down, it’s usually Mill Creek. Frankly I don’t remember anything on Mill Creek that earns a black diamond in my book but I was raised on CO jank and have a Ripmo.

Are you a Colorado intermediate or a flat lander immediate? That might be what would be my deciding factor.

Another option is to go south from town on Blue Sky to Indian Summer. Both are lovely rides but they can get hot and don’t have a lot of shade.

There’s a certain subset of consumers for whom price is the most important deciding factor in where and what to buy. No surprise - an assembly line shoveling Sysco is priced pretty competitively.

DoorDash, Uber Eats and all their ilk are awf for other reasons anyways. If you want pizza, call the pizza place directly.

Wow, talk about right place right time. What’s the street value on that?

You’re in the Denver metro? And worried about police? 😂

What’s the story of finding it?

You should spend some time reading the literature of tankless heaters - the child post below explains it. Tankess heaters can only raise temp at certain flows. So, if your incoming water is ~55 degrees, it might be able to heat to 110 degrees and flow 6.6 GPH - basically one shower. In that scenario if someone turned on the hot water for.. say... dishes, the tankless can't keep up with demand and the overall output will be colder. Probably not cold but it might not be what you wanted.

The more expensive you go, the more the tankeless can do concurrently, but the more sacrifices you'll make: they'll be physically larger, they might require a bigger gas line, etc.

In that case, I would assume they’re talking about how cold the incoming water would be.

I used a tankless in a zone five area where our incoming water in the winter was often below 60 degrees. You’ll have to compare the charts of input temp and output GPH to determine how it would work for your specific use case.

I used an indoor mounted one, but there are tankless models intended for places like CA and AZ where they can be mounted outside.

We liked the endless hot water - we only had one bath and three people, so we offer were bumping against the 60 gallons of our old tank model.

I wish either of the IKEA devices measured more. I picked up an Awair Element used off eBay and set it up to provide data locally. The C02 sensor in particular has been really enlightening.