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Good on you Robin! Two bikes will allow a certain amount of comparison and contrast. As we know, the CF doesn't like unauthorized modifications to in-service equipment. What looks original on one but not the other, is probably a good guide.

For those who don't know Phoenix was supposed to be the Canadian federal government's solution to a dispersed pay and benefits administration system organized per department. Put everything in one place and eliminate widespread duplication. My wife worked in the old system and family friends retired when their jobs moved to an economically depressed region (sound like a govt project yet?). One of them was owed $125,000 which she got only after I badgered the MP and gave the story to the national press. I had a university coop student reporting to me when Phoenix was implemented. For most of his placement he never got paid. Every avenue to get money to this guy failed. When three pays were missed, I turned him 90-deg and said his job now was to navigate the contact mechanisms and get himself money. At one point we ran a food drive so he could eat, and I found a benevolent fund that gave him no-interest no-set-repayment money. It is a bloody disaster when a government can't pay its employees!