Riding a bike named ER is kind of tempting fate.

Yeah, I don't really understand why many (?) people here are going for those 26 mm inner width rims for road use with narrow tires. ETRTO recommendations don't exist for nothing. You can usually go a bit further than recommended, but it's a bit of a gamble.

Unless you want to to exclusively run 32+ mm tires, don't get those rims!

That said, it would be great to see something between 21 mm and 26 mm rim width. Something like 23 or 24 mm would be pretty versatile.

I'm running the 50x26 IW Carbonspeed wheels with  38c Schwalbe Pro One tires and the ride quality is incredible.

Praxis also has T47 BBs at good price points.

https://praxiscycles.com/product/t47-eb-shimano/

with all due respect, nobody's going to start making $25 12-sp cassettes in the US. that option is just going to disappear, and you'll be paying $100 like before this whole AE thing came into being. whether that's progress or not is up to you to decide.

60% tariff on a $25 cassette would only bring up the final price to $40; maybe we'd start seeing low $30 cassettes from Vietnam or Bangladesh.

Wippermann Connex links are reusable, but cost more.

Maybe Hecho en Mexico open mold frames and carbon wheels could become a thing.

There was a time in the 90s when "DeRosa" titanium frames were outsourced to Russia.

Brand name sounds like a drunken pronunciation of Reseller.