@the chain tensioner question on my Devil. Last night when I swapped out from 48x18 to 48x16 - I couldn't get the chain tensioner to slip back into the remaining dropout. I'm about 3/32nds of an inch from bottoming out the axle into the back of the dropouts, which is good. I wanted to be able to run the 48x18 on the flip-side because I will be doing some hills at the end of May up near my in-laws.

@Sixty Fiver: That's my current situation actually. I love the Devil frame I currently run which has a geometry somewhere south of the LHT but north of the cross check (for exact info, it's a 700c clone of the 93 XO-1). It's fast with my shakedown ride in the 81GI range pushing 27-and-some-change without even feeling like I was going into Elvis mode.

My N+1 moment in this whole thing is that my wife wants me to build her up a touring bike so she can keep up with me. She's convinced me to build up a more "race" oriented bike, which is what I'm looking at the numbers on.

I love my Devil, but feel like when I get up at 5 a.m. to go put down a base mile in bibs and a jersey, that I'm dressed wrong for the bike (if that makes any sense at all).
M