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He had an issue with:
The red tires (they're bike trainer tires, they only come in red/yellow so that you don't accidentally take them on the road, as they will puncture super easy and get destroyed)
The setback and the saddle slammed back (I have long femurs, and needed the bike back to get knee over pedal position)
The short stem (I had the stem on those bars to sell them, and didn't want to deal with switching stems to see how the bars looked/felt with that geometry. The TT is around 610mm, so even with the 50mm stem, it's a decent reach.)
The spacers (I had the shop put in 24mm of spacers, so I could sit on the bike and see how it fit. i.e. measure twice, cut once)
In regards to the "beefier wheels" I was going to build up some deep carbon rimmed wheels, but considering I don't race, I saw no need. Most people that race (road) bikes have 2 sets of wheels, training wheels (durable and usually aluminum, shallow rims), and their "race wheels". As I will only essentially be training, I have more of a need for training wheels than race wheels.
These wheels are temporary as they're from another build, but I plan on building some Archetype to Low Flange Phil Woods in the spring.