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been a while and time for some retrospective updates. the shakedown ride ended up being this bikepacking weekender to ivinghoe beacon i did with user @Qebrus in early march. we were supposed to do a three-day ride but bailed the off-road day as it was still miserably wet and muddy. was still good fun and the bike performed surprisingly well.
the setup is far from dialled but the bike carried the weight really well. the potential clearly is there. the only issue was the cockpit, which is still too tight for the smashing down the hill luscious locks flowing ron stance. this should be sorted by swapping in a longer stem. normally i'd resist anything longer than 100mm, but with the low trail fork the longer the better.
i was a bit dubious about leaving the revelate sweetroll out as the sleeping system bag and using just saddlebags front and rear for that tetsuo ehara cool, but they served well. there was ample room for food suggesting an unsupported three-nighter would've been fully possible. it should get even easier after i manage to upgrade the old scout shelter to a big agnes and get a neoair xlite.
the 11-42 sorted all the climbs, albeit they were mostly road ones. thanks to the humble efforts in weenieing the bike was fun to shred fully loaded. going with alu over steel paid off here i think. haters will say it's stiff but the 48b tubeless herses help with that. the wider q factor didn't feel like an issue either but i missed my holdfast-strapped pedals a bit.
will try to reveal some other upgrades soon.