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Originally Posted by TwoHeadsBrewing
Absolutely, and not just for the fun and satisfaction of building it yourself. You've got quite a few components on there that are miles ahead of the stock pre-built, such as the Microshifts and the wheelset. I almost dropped an extra $400 on a double crankset and some 2x10 microshift bar ends.
Thx for the reinforcement. Do you mean you "almost dropped $400 but decided not to", or you "did actually drop almost $400"?

If you intentionally chose the microshift barends, how do you like them? In the comments of my other thread here, I describe how my 9sp are overshifting the indexing when I downshift (push against the RD springs to move to a larger cog). Upshifting it snaps into the indexing perfect every time. I'm kinda wishing I had bought separate DA shifters for my retroshifts, so I'd have hopefully better indexing, or also a friction option.
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