First ride out last night and really impressed, found the bars comfortable, as was the riding position for the most part, though still occasionally found myself wanting to naturally move back a few cm on saddle, but it's already back to max rearward position marking on the rails.
...love the monster truck feel after my gravel bikes, really stable and seemed to fly over the stuff I rode last night. Tyres seemed good too, not too draggy on road sections, but great offroad (really appreciate the recommendations on the other thread).
Combination of the new tyres run tubeless, plus a Thomson seatpost has dropped some weight from the bike. Should've ridden it stock first though, as would have looked for a layback Thomson instead of the inline one I picked up last week
Miffed as had to cut ride short - got out late and rear light ran out of charge and had a few road sections on the route - otherwise I was well up for making it a night ride.
All in all, pretty pleased though a few compromises already found in luggage carrying; relatively small frame bags won't fit nicely with even a small bottle on the downtube (with a Topeak bottle boss extender fitted). May have to consider Wolftooth 3 bar extender to get the bottle cage further down. Then again, maybe a full frame bag beckons....
